Hard Drive Problem

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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

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"Terry" <redone22214@excite.com> wrote in message
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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.
>

The 160GB is a decimal figure, 149GB is the binary equivalent. If you right
click the drive in Explorer and click Properties you should see both values.

The reason goes back a long way when someone decided to call the value
2^10=1024 a kilobyte because it was so close to a kilo or 1000. Then
2^20=1048576 became Megabyte and 2^30=1073741824 became Gigabyte. There are
moves to change the terminology of binary values but without success so far.