Is this normal

Discussion in 'Storage Devices' started by swirly, Oct 21, 2004.

  1. swirly

    swirly Geek Trainee

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    k my 200 gb shows up as 189.91 i know thats pretty normal!!! Is there a waay to squeeze for gig souttas it lol??? Well anyway's my HDD (wen u click on local disk C AND GO TO PROPERTIES) it says im using 5 gigs of my hdd already and i didnt install anything.. i cleaned my widows folder so its taking up 500 mb , and my program files folder is 700 mb , my nvidia drivers are 10 mb , along with myo ther programs have to be like maybe 2 gigs including windows.. Why does it say 5/6 gigs r being used.. im a memory freak.... so anyways...system restore is off .. any other programs or windows utility that can be using so much gig??
     
    swirly, Oct 21, 2004
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  2. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    2 things you should take into account:

    1.)The formatted capacity and installation of an OS will take up space; and
    2.)In Windows, 1GB=1024MB; HDD companies use 1GB=1000MB.

    There's nothing you can really do if you want to have it useful to you.
     
    Big B, Oct 21, 2004
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  3. swirly

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    the OS took up 582 gigs.. my programs take up like 1 gig.. i dont get this
     
    swirly, Oct 21, 2004
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  4. ninja fetus

    ninja fetus I'm a thugged out gangsta

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    Ok. Windows, they count one gig as 1,024mb. Hard drive companies count 1 gig as 1,000mb. so each time you convert how many bytes into a gig, you lose like 24mb and 24kb.
    and formatting to NTFS takes up some space too
     
    ninja fetus, Oct 21, 2004
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  5. MadMatt86

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    I have the same problem, my 200gb only shows up as 189gb, but I cant see all those 24mb's adding up to 11gb, can you?!
    And im using my 200gb as a slave, so no OS or software on it, only media files
     
    MadMatt86, Oct 26, 2004
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  6. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    I can see it running around 195GB converting from 200 * 1000MB/ 1024MB. I don't know how much you have in media files, but that leaves you with 6GB if you have 189GB. And then there's the formatting part to take into account. A hard drive MUST be formatted to be useable in an OS.

    I swear I've seen a formula for this, but I'm not sure where I saw it.
     
    Big B, Oct 26, 2004
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  7. Sniper

    Sniper Administrator Staff Member

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    in the recent CUSTOM PC magazine, they tested a number of drives! one of the 200GB showed 189Gb after format, the other 186GB! NTFS...
     
    Sniper, Oct 26, 2004
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  8. Waffle

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    Why must a disk be formatted before use? I'd have thought it was clean when it left the factory.
     
    Waffle, Oct 26, 2004
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  9. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    Basically, you can think of formatting a drive as giving a language that it can communicate with the OS, that "language" being NTFS, FAT32, ExtFS, etc.
    Hard drives don't come pre-formatted from the factory, so they need to be formatted in order to be used.

    A second way to look at formatting is giving the hard drive permanent amnesia. The data is no longer recognized, unless you have special software and/or hardware to delve past this...but that stuff isn't cheap to say the least (in other words, it's another good reason to backup).
     
    Big B, Oct 26, 2004
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