Brand new install; wondering if I fracked up?

[Cla55clown]

Just finished my 1st ever new build. Everything went well and I made a few changes in the UEFI and successfully installed Windows to my SSD (HDD was unplugged from data cable). Now I think I messed up because I didn't create any partitions or perform any formatting. Was I supposed to do that before installing Windows? If so, can I go back and fix the error? Thanks for any help.

 

[Chainzsaw]

You should be fine. Usually windows won't install if it's not properly formatted - i'm guessing yours already was.

Are you getting any errors? If not, have fun!

 

[willard]

Worst case scenario, you're missing some space. Here's how to find out.

1. Click the start button
2. type "disk part" without the quotes. Top result should be "Create and Format hard disk partitions." Hit Enter.
3. You'll see a list of all your drives in the top panel, and a breakdown of partitions in the lower panel. If you see anything that says "Unallocated" on your SSD in the lower panel, you're missing space.

 

[Cla55clown]

Worst case scenario, you're missing some space. Here's how to find out.

1. Click the start button
2. type "disk part" without the quotes. Top result should be "Create and Format hard disk partitions." Hit Enter.
3. You'll see a list of all your drives in the top panel, and a breakdown of partitions in the lower panel. If you see anything that says "Unallocated" on your SSD in the lower panel, you're missing space.

Thanks. Nothing reads "Unallocated" but it states the capacity as 59.53GB...it's a 64GB SSD so where is the extra 4 and a half GBs?

 

[szaboaz]

It's "marketing" rounding error
Try this in a calculator:
59.53 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 63919850782,72

63919850782 *byte* that is. And if you round it you got your 64 * 1000 *1000 * 1000.

 

[GI_JONES]

It's "marketing" rounding error
Try this in a calculator:
59.53 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 63919850782,72

63919850782 *byte* that is. And if you round it you got your 64 * 1000 *1000 * 1000.

" Marketing Rounding Error"..... Haha..I like that

 

[willard]

Yeah, you've got to keep that kind of stuff in mind when you're buying drives. Marketing loves to use decimal sizes, when computers report binary.

Using binary, going up one prefix requires an increase of 2^10, or 1024. With decimal, it's a factor of 1000. So they say 1000 KB is a MB, when in fact it's not. The higher the prefix, the more space you lose because that 0.24% error compounds each time.

 

[Cla55clown]

Best answer selected by Cla55clown.

 

[nikorr]

This topic has been closed by Nikorr