my seagate 1tb isn't being fully reconized by xp

[pcclan]

my computer only reconzies 931 gbs what could be the problem that mean's i'm missing 69 gb's

[SXRguyinMA]

formatting, file system, windows installation files, etc

[nevermind1534]

formatting, file system, windows installation files, etc

no, not even that; the extra left after formatting is 8MB. And the windows installation is counted as the total space. As with any storage device, pretty much, it is measured by the manufacturer as straight decimal, as in 1TB=1000 GB, but Windows measures it as 1TB=1024GB, so that's just how windows measures it. It is seeing the whole 1TB (minus the 8mb that is reserved) of the drive.

[pcclan]

.... what does that mean ?:think:

[crenn]

Means you only get 93.1% of space that it says on the label.

[x88x]

It's actually even a little worse than nevermind said, because of compounding differences:
kB=1024B
MB=1024kB=1048576B
GB=1024MB=1073741824B
TB=1024GB=1099511627776B
etc, so on and so forth.

End result being, the bigger our drives become, the more space we'll "lose". The one exception to this is manufacturers like OCZ who have started to advertise their SSDs as closer to the binary capacity (not sure if they actually calculate for binary capacity or just round down tough, to be honest).

edit: for context, my 1.5TB drives translate as 1397.26GB

[nevermind1534]

It's actually even a little worse than nevermind said, because of compounding differences:
kB=1024B
MB=1024kB=1048576B
GB=1024MB=1073741824B
TB=1024GB=1099511627776B
etc, so on and so forth.

End result being, the bigger our drives become, the more space we'll "lose". The one exception to this is manufacturers like OCZ who have started to advertise their SSDs as closer to the binary capacity (not sure if they actually calculate for binary capacity or just round down tough, to be honest).

edit: for context, my 1.5TB drives translate as 1397.26GB

Yeah, and networking stuff is advertised in megabits and gigabits. That's why you never see 1MB/s on your average DSL or cable connection (maybe in other countries)

[x88x]

Heehee, someone should start an ISP that advertises in nibbles, just to confuse people :D