thats the actual size of a 500 Gb hard drive due to how they count bits and what not or something along that line.

Mine says the exact same number and always has! just like my raptor say 69.2 GB instead of 74

 

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Originally Posted by anonymous.gamer Hey, I just did a fresh install of WindowsXP Home and had a look in Disk Management. Its saying my 500GB HDD is 465.75GB.. is there a reason for this? Is there anyway I can change it so its 500GB?

I can't remember the exact details of why, but this is perfectly normal.

For example, my 150 GB shows up as 139.73 GB, and my 250 GB shows up as 232.88 GB. The best way I can explain what I remember is that this is reserved space for the necessary operation of the HDD and/or the OS.

But the point is: it's all good, and everything is running smoothly.

 

Nope, thats the actual size of the partition...

The 500gb drive you bought is really 465.75GB

Don't worry they are all that way, there are plenty of threads explaining why...

 

that's just how they are addressed.....perfectly normal

 

1000 vs 1024 do the math it works out. And sooo many posts on this. Google is your friend.

 

its something about counting 1gb as 1000mb when its actually 1024. so you're getting 500,000mb when 512,000mb would make a full 500gb

 

O ok, thanks! +rep for all

 

Yeah, this is a real common issue.

Basically the problem is hard drive manufacturers consider one "gigabyte" to mean 1,024 megabytes. Unfortunately, Windows/Microsoft consider one gigabyte to mean 1,000 megabytes.

So following this concept, if you had a 500 gigabyte drive, the actual writable amount in Windows would be 500 divided by 1024 multiplied by 1000.

*whips out windows calculator* So you have 488.281 gigabytes of usable space. Now you take into account the OS (& drivers?), page file, MFT etc and you lose another 20gig.

On second thoughts... that does seem to be quite a bit >_>

 

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Originally Posted by Asus Mobile 1000 vs 1024 do the math it works out. And sooo many posts on this. Google is your friend.

Hey be careful suggesting that Google is your friend... you may well find yourself e-raped

 

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Originally Posted by T3h_Ch33z_Muncha Yeah, this is a real common issue. Basically the problem is hard drive manufacturers consider one "gigabyte" to mean 1,024 megabytes. Unfortunately, Windows/Microsoft consider one gigabyte to mean 1,000 megabytes. So following this concept, if you had a 500 gigabyte drive, the actual writable amount in Windows would be 500 divided by 1024 multiplied by 1000. *whips out windows calculator* So you have 488.281 gigabytes of usable space. Now you take into account the OS (& drivers?), page file, MFT etc and you lose another 20gig. On second thoughts... that does seem to be quite a bit >_>

I'm pretty sure you got those mixed up. The hard drive manufacturers use 1000 MB as a GB. Where as Windows identifies 1GB as 1024 MB :O

 

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Originally Posted by Pineappleman I'm pretty sure you got those mixed up. The hard drive manufacturers use 1000 MB as a GB. Where as Windows identifies 1GB as 1024 MB :O

Wouldn't that mean a 500gig hard drive would be 5024 512gig according to windows

 

The space that is missing, is not in fact missing, but is being taken up. Small gnomes are residing in between your platters, you must extract them.

 

My harddrive syas 320 GB, but it's actually only 290 GB........... And that's with vista on

 

The reason why your HDD says that you have that much space is because it is the amount of space in binary. Sorry man, but ALL drives are like that.

 

my 1tb comes up as 931 and pisses me off lol

 

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Originally Posted by Setzer My harddrive syas 320 GB, but it's actually only 290 GB........... And that's with vista on

Try turning Vista off, what does it say then?

 

Even linux, OSX, etc... all will say the same. The drive size is in binary not metric.

 

I guess my jokes are just going over everyone's head tonight. Or maybe they're not funny to anyone else to me because I've been drinking tonight.

 

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Originally Posted by T3h_Ch33z_Muncha Wouldn't that mean a 500gig hard drive would be 5024gig according to windows

Dyslexia sucks? You have it backward.

 

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Originally Posted by Pineappleman I'm pretty sure you got those mixed up. The hard drive manufacturers use 1000 MB as a GB. Where as Windows identifies 1GB as 1024 MB :O

And That is the truth my friends..
Hard drive maufacturers

1gb = 1000mb

Software makers

1gb = 1024mb

stupid :swearing: manufacturers
giving me

for their :turd:

 

Thats normal dont worry your hdd is perfectly fine hehe

 

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Originally Posted by Rook_ The space that is missing, is not in fact missing, but is being taken up. Small gnomes are residing in between your platters, you must extract them.

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Originally Posted by Rook_ Try turning Vista off, what does it say then?

Well aren't we all full of jokes tonight

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Originally Posted by Asus Mobile Dyslexia sucks? You have it backward.

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Originally Posted by dragonxwas And That is the truth my friends.. Hard drive maufacturers 1gb = 1000mb Software makers 1gb = 1024mb stupid :swearing: manufacturers giving me for their :turd:

OK now I'm REALLY confused. If you had a 1GB hard drive according to the manufacturers, and the OS recognised a gigabyte as 1024MB then wouldn't that make the drive 1024MB? which is LARGER than 1000? I think I'm right in saying everyone on OCN's hard drives are less than their factory ratedness...

 

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Originally Posted by T3h_Ch33z_Muncha OK now I'm REALLY confused. If you had a 1GB hard drive according to the manufacturers, and the OS recognised a gigabyte as 1024MB then wouldn't that make the drive 1024MB? which is LARGER than 1000? I think I'm right in saying everyone on OCN's hard drives are less than their factory ratedness...

500GB hard drive is advertised as 500GB by the manufacturer, who works on the 1000MB = 1Gb base. Therefore you actually only have 500,000MB available.

When you install it... windows reads it as 1024MB=1GB.
Therefore that 500,000MB shows as 500,000/1024 = 488GB

The key is that the manufacturers and their advertised capacities are overstated. They use a smaller ratio for a 1GB, so when you use a larger one, you end up with less space.
Hope this clears it up.

 

Is it really hard to search Google before posting another thread about this?

 

^^^What he said. I hope you understand if not feel free to post back we will explain and not make fun of you.