Problems installing big hard drive

[rob]

Sadly, that is the true storage capacity of your new hard
drive. The drive marketers measure a megabyte as
1,000,000 bytes, but computers measure a megabyte as
1,048,576, therefore a drive advertised as a 160Gig
(160,000 megabytes) is actually roughly 127gigs. This
link explains it better:

http://eies.njit.edu/~walsh/powers/mungedabyte.html


>-----Original Message-----
>I am trying to install a 160 gig WD eide drive in my PC
>with a 1.8Ghz P4 Intel D850MV board. I have already
>upgraded the bios and the atapi.sys for 48 bit
addressing
>and isstalled the controller card that came with the
drive.
>
>The next step should eb to format the drive. However,
>Windows explorer shows the unformatted drive as having
>only 127 gigs.
>
>What more must I do to make the system see the full
drive
>capacity?
>.
>

[Pete Baker]

Rob

Perhaps you should invest in a calculator before attempting to advise anyone
else on this issue.

Drive manufacturers do indeed use the decimal version of a Gigabyte,
1,000,000,000 bytes, but an OS will measure it as 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes =
1,073,741,824 bytes.

That means the OP should see a drive capacity in drive properties of roughly
149Gb.
Even using your calculation you would get 152Gb, not 127Gb.


Neal, the only step you seem to be missing is to install Service Pack 1.

Hope that helps
Pete
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"rob" wrote in message
> Sadly, that is the true storage capacity of your new hard
> drive. The drive marketers measure a megabyte as
> 1,000,000 bytes, but computers measure a megabyte as
> 1,048,576, therefore a drive advertised as a 160Gig
> (160,000 megabytes) is actually roughly 127gigs. This
> link explains it better:
>
> http://eies.njit.edu/~walsh/powers/mungedabyte.html
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I am trying to install a 160 gig WD eide drive in my PC
> >with a 1.8Ghz P4 Intel D850MV board. I have already
> >upgraded the bios and the atapi.sys for 48 bit
> addressing
> >and isstalled the controller card that came with the
> drive.
> >
> >The next step should eb to format the drive. However,
> >Windows explorer shows the unformatted drive as having
> >only 127 gigs.
> >
> >What more must I do to make the system see the full
> drive
> >capacity?
> >.
> >