Hard Drive Problem

[terry]

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I have a Giga-byte GA-7VT600 1394 AMD Motherboard with dual bios and a
Seagate Hard drive .

The hard drive has a 160GB capacity,but when I install it with this
hardware and WindowsXP OEM SP1 software it only comes up as a 150GB
hard drive.

Do I need to flash something or change a setting so it see's it as a
160GB hard drive.

Thanks:Terry

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.giga-byte (More info?)

If you define 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes, as the drive manufacturers do,
then you bought a 160GB HDD.

If you define 1GB as 1,073,741,824 bytes, as Windows XP does, then you have
149GB.

Neither size is wrong, it all comes down to what your definition of a
gigabyte is.

"Terry" <redone22214@excite.com> wrote in message
news:Eu%Ac.5380$3b5.4515@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com...
> I have a Giga-byte GA-7VT600 1394 AMD Motherboard with dual bios and a
> Seagate Hard drive .
>
> The hard drive has a 160GB capacity,but when I install it with this
> hardware and WindowsXP OEM SP1 software it only comes up as a 150GB
> hard drive.
>
> Do I need to flash something or change a setting so it see's it as a
> 160GB hard drive.
>
> Thanks:Terry

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.giga-byte (More info?)

also format and all the tables it has to store take space.

KK

"Homer J. Simpson" <hjsimpson@springfield.usa> wrote in message
news:Jq2Bc.818837$Ig.97412@pd7tw2no...
> If you define 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes, as the drive manufacturers do,
> then you bought a 160GB HDD.
>
> If you define 1GB as 1,073,741,824 bytes, as Windows XP does, then you
have
> 149GB.
>
> Neither size is wrong, it all comes down to what your definition of a
> gigabyte is.
>
> "Terry" <redone22214@excite.com> wrote in message
> news:Eu%Ac.5380$3b5.4515@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com...
> > I have a Giga-byte GA-7VT600 1394 AMD Motherboard with dual bios and a
> > Seagate Hard drive .
> >
> > The hard drive has a 160GB capacity,but when I install it with this
> > hardware and WindowsXP OEM SP1 software it only comes up as a 150GB
> > hard drive.
> >
> > Do I need to flash something or change a setting so it see's it as a
> > 160GB hard drive.
> >
> > Thanks:Terry
>
>