Hey guys, my friend and I just got his new system up and running. Plays BF2 on highest settings smooth as silk, but when making the partition for windows we could only select 127 Gb for the partition. Now I am well aware that harddrives are never as big as they are rated due to bad clusters and what not, but this just seems absurd.
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320Gb WD=...127Gb??
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harhar, RTFM ;D
or RTFStickies!
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=754424
Our Disk Storage System Answer sticky
It is basically a limitation due to addressing issues. You need the SP1 or SP2 version of XP slipstreamed into the install to format it correctly on install, you can of course get around this in various ways, just read the sticky link
or RTFStickies!
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=754424
Our Disk Storage System Answer sticky
It is basically a limitation due to addressing issues. You need the SP1 or SP2 version of XP slipstreamed into the install to format it correctly on install, you can of course get around this in various ways, just read the sticky link
I just ran into the same problem. I formatted with my new 250GB maxtor drive. If I use a XP disc with SP2 and reformat will I be able to use the 250GB?
I just formated, installed SP2, then the patch which came with my maxtor drive which should let it read all 250GB, but I guess it wont since windows is on the drive. Am I totally screwed with having windows on this drive or what?
I just formated, installed SP2, then the patch which came with my maxtor drive which should let it read all 250GB, but I guess it wont since windows is on the drive. Am I totally screwed with having windows on this drive or what?
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Post deleted because I'm a moron. Thanks for pointing that out. 
TeeJayHoward said:
Actually yes it is. Decimal is base 10. hence 1GB= 1,000,000,000 bytes.
1 binary GB is 1,073,741,824 in decimal form.
Which is why the drive formats to 232.83GB.
250,000,000,000 GB as rated by the manufacturer in decimal form.
divided by 1,073,741,824 which is how many bytes are in a binary GB
= 232.83 GB