I have just purchased a Maxtor Basics - Personal Storage 3200 - 500 gig for some cheap, extra storage.
I plugged it in and it is all working fine but it registers as only 465 gig. Where the hell is the other 35?
Has it been stolen by some government funded gig monster?
Seriously though, where is it?
2007-07-11 03:36:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Not my primary drive, just for storage of music and photos.
Also it was like this from the start up.
2007-07-11 03:45:35 · update #1
hidden programs on it, formating takes up space, and the size is always smaller then it says. like a 250gb hdd is actully 245.
2007-07-11 03:42:36 · answer #1 · answered by Jake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that the device really only has 465 GB on the drive.... Maybe a marketing ploy used to sell these puppies?
Either that, or the 35 GB is used for some kind of drive formatting or backup.
Either way, I'm fairly certain there's no way you can recover and use those 35 gigs.
2007-07-11 03:45:33 · answer #2 · answered by DugBam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could be a few things, may only show up as 465 free but have the total 500.
Do you have hidden files and folders checked on?
Was it used?
Is it your primary HD with the critical system files on it?
2007-07-11 03:40:24 · answer #3 · answered by CrazyJ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the 35 gigabytes were used for storing the folder names and file names, along with the name of the hard disk itself. If you have lots of folders it can happen.
2007-07-11 03:41:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to some dude:
Hard drives are sold and marketed using decimal gigabytes. That is, a “GB” consists of 1,000,000,000 bytes.
However, computers interpret gigabytes in binary. To a computer, 1 GB = 2^30 bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes.
The ratio of “actual” to “marketed” file size is the ratio of these two interpretations, or roughly 0.9313225.
Therefore an X-sized (marketed) drive actually has 0.9313225*X of space usable to a computer.
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60GB*0.9313225 = 55.88GB
40GB*0.9313225 =37.25 GB
30GB*0.9313225 = 27.94GB
20GB*0.9313225 = 18.6 GB
15GB*0.9313225 = 13.97GB
10GB*0.9313225 = 9.31GB
6GB*0.9313225 = 5.59GB
5GB*0.9313225 = 4.67GB
4GB*0.9313225 = 3.73GB
1GB*0.9313225 = 0.93GB
512MB*0.9313225 = 476.84MB
2007-07-11 04:08:44 · answer #5 · answered by RAM 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no it is used as your system restore what you do is go todisk cleanup select your drive then go to the More Options Tab and press Clean up on the bottom one
2007-07-11 03:41:30 · answer #6 · answered by V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it is like a set up memory. You are supposed to format it and it should give you your memory. But its too late unless you buy a new one
2007-07-11 03:41:24 · answer #7 · answered by Ohshnapps 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't actually get 500GB you get 500 billion bytes which is equal to 465 GB
2007-07-11 03:48:02 · answer #8 · answered by Maller 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Run a Disk Cleanup if anything is on it youll know.
2007-07-11 04:17:08 · answer #9 · answered by Ricky B 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋