I dont have this problem... yet! but i remember reading that with sata, xp doesnt format properly and you lose gigs? well i dont want that and i remember the fix was download and make a diskette of diskkeeper or something like that? can anyone remember what its called? i cant search the forum using search button for something i dont know what it is called. also what is partitioning? is it putting the OS in a space by itself to make it go .. faster? stop it getting interupted? ive no idea. should you always partition then format? ive only ever just formatted over unpartitioned space
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Missing memory in SATA format
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handyrandyrc
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I don't know what you're talking about. Did some techie at a Computer Superstore tell you that?
As long as you provide a driver during install, Windows will see the drive and format it appropriately.
Do remember that many hard drive manufacturers base their "megabytes" off of one million bytes even, rather than 1,024,000 (which is how Windows reports MB).
As long as you provide a driver during install, Windows will see the drive and format it appropriately.
Do remember that many hard drive manufacturers base their "megabytes" off of one million bytes even, rather than 1,024,000 (which is how Windows reports MB).
i read it on a forum, i thought it was this one, maybe not. i bought from ocuk and they gave it to me OEM. when you say drivers do you mean the Western Digital caviar 7200rpm SE (data lifeguard tools 11 for DOS or do you mean the ASUS motherboard drivers off the CD from the MOBO? thanks for reply!
I think you're confusing a few things here.
First of all, any missing space issues are not specific to SATA drives. They may be more prevalent since the latest, bigger drives are more commonly available with a SATA interface. XP, pre service pack 2 does not address partitions greater than 137GB by default.
See this post for any information regarding that barrier: From the Answers Sticky in this forum
Partitioning is a way of creating one or several 'logical' drives on one physical drive. Some people do this to keep OS seperate from Apps and Data, etc. There are many numbers of partitioning strategies. You must partition and then format. There is no way to format an unpartitioned drive - though, it's possible to only have one single partition and format that. It certainly isn't required to create multiple partitions before formatting, although some OSes such as linux may require seperate partitions for Root and Swap, for example.
First of all, any missing space issues are not specific to SATA drives. They may be more prevalent since the latest, bigger drives are more commonly available with a SATA interface. XP, pre service pack 2 does not address partitions greater than 137GB by default.
See this post for any information regarding that barrier: From the Answers Sticky in this forum
Partitioning is a way of creating one or several 'logical' drives on one physical drive. Some people do this to keep OS seperate from Apps and Data, etc. There are many numbers of partitioning strategies. You must partition and then format. There is no way to format an unpartitioned drive - though, it's possible to only have one single partition and format that. It certainly isn't required to create multiple partitions before formatting, although some OSes such as linux may require seperate partitions for Root and Swap, for example.
I can only think of two possible things...
1) When Windows formats your hard drive in the install, it'll leave 8mb of space at the end. I'm not entirely sure as to why it does that. Back when the 8mb meant something, I would use partition magic to retrieve it and append it to the rest of the drive (now 8mb on my 300gb diamondmax10 is like losing 1 square inch in the Sears tower)
2) When you buy a HDD, they advertise the drive as '300 GB', as in 300 billion bytes. Unfortunately, because the computer is base2 (only 1's and 0's) and not base10 (0 through 9), it calculates the 300GB HDD as only ~279GB.
1) When Windows formats your hard drive in the install, it'll leave 8mb of space at the end. I'm not entirely sure as to why it does that. Back when the 8mb meant something, I would use partition magic to retrieve it and append it to the rest of the drive (now 8mb on my 300gb diamondmax10 is like losing 1 square inch in the Sears tower)
2) When you buy a HDD, they advertise the drive as '300 GB', as in 300 billion bytes. Unfortunately, because the computer is base2 (only 1's and 0's) and not base10 (0 through 9), it calculates the 300GB HDD as only ~279GB.
lithium726
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SP1 supports partitions greater than 137GB, it was only the initial release of XP that did not.pre service pack 2 does not address partitions greater than 137GB by default.
no, a MB is 2^20, or 1,048,576 bytes. a KB is 1,024 bytes. a megabyte, by definition, is 1,024 kilobytes. you can't just mulitply that by 1000 to get a megabyte, you have to follow powers of two. 2^10 for KB, 2^20 for MB, 2^30 (1,073,741,824 bytes, which is really what we're dealing with here) for GB, 2^40 for TB... ectrather than 1,024,000 (which is how Windows reports MB).
so... 300GB, according to manufacturers is 300,000,000,000... or 300 billion. 300billion divided by 2^30 is 279.39GB, which is waht the drive would format too. as others have said, OP, this is not an SATA specific issue.