I just put together an external hard drive. It is a Seagate 200 GB ultra ATA/100. I put the drive into a Mad Dog usb2.0/firewire enclosure.
I am running windows xp home edition with SP2
I used the windows disk management and launched the "new disk wizard".
It walked me thru the process without a hitch.
My question is: Why is this hard drive seen as 186 GB ? [It is a 200 GB drive] Why am i missing 14 GB's ?
Also, Is usb 2.0 preferred over firewire? I have both connections on my computer. Which should i use?
I formatted in NTFS with just one primary partion.
thanks for your help.......
burt
I am running windows xp home edition with SP2
I used the windows disk management and launched the "new disk wizard".
It walked me thru the process without a hitch.
My question is: Why is this hard drive seen as 186 GB ? [It is a 200 GB drive] Why am i missing 14 GB's ?
Also, Is usb 2.0 preferred over firewire? I have both connections on my computer. Which should i use?
I formatted in NTFS with just one primary partion.
thanks for your help.......
burt