7200.10 320gb showing up as 279 formatted

[gotkilled]

I know the byte rule thing and that when formatted, my amount of space will be lower but this is the equivalent of a 300gb drive since my formatted size ends up being 279 when I bought the drive as a 320gb originally. I am using windows vista. I even used seagate seatools to set the drive to maximum drive capacity.

[gotkilled]

seems that other people have the same problem.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/534471.html

[rseiler]

This suggests the formatted size should be 298GB. Checking mine, that's what I got. I have a PATA with AAE firmware, if that even matters.

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2803&p=3

[gilga]

after formatting my seagate 320 gig drive, i was left with 298gigs

Can you RMA the drive and see if that makes a difference? I havent read through the entire thread, but have you tried a bios flash?

BTW how well do the seagate tools work?

[drizzt81]

see
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1179789