Dwayne
April 20th 03, 06:29 AM
>-----Original Message-----
>i just put in a 80 gig hard drive and when i tryed to
>fromat the hard drive it only let me go to 75 gig how can
>i format the whole hard drive and help in this thank you
>.
>when partitioning the HDD it will need to reserve some
space for the partition info so you will not be able to
use the entire HDD
Also some HDD manufacturers will get the drive close to
what is advertised and leave it at that I have seen
variants +/- 200 kb
>i just put in a 80 gig hard drive and when i tryed to
>fromat the hard drive it only let me go to 75 gig how can
>i format the whole hard drive and help in this thank you
>.
>when partitioning the HDD it will need to reserve some
space for the partition info so you will not be able to
use the entire HDD
Also some HDD manufacturers will get the drive close to
what is advertised and leave it at that I have seen
variants +/- 200 kb