goddam formatting

[framig]

hi everyone,
bought a brand new 40 gigabytes hard disk. one month after, i format the disk and the 40 gigabytes is now only 36 gigabytes. what happened to my goddamm 4 gigabytes. please help me. what went wrong?
thanks in advance!!!

[nissmo300]

Did you ever see those coin machines where you drop in all your coins and gives you money for it but charges you a few dollars?

well in this case when you reformatted it cost you a few GB. Thats all.

[indolikaa]

Nice.

When you format a hard drive, sector addresses and FATs have to be created and catalogued, lest your computer will never know where the data is stored.

[808smokey]

You should not lose 4gig for any reason. Other than Hard drive failures. There's something definitly jacked up. Do a full Clean format with the software it came with. It should be around 38.Xgig. A 40gig drive isn't 40gig it's 38.0-39.Xgig depending on FAT32, FAT16 or NTFS format

[bottle-necked]

You should not lose 4gig for any reason. Other than Hard drive failures. There's something definitly jacked up. Do a full Clean format with the software it came with. It should be around 38.Xgig. A 40gig drive isn't 40gig it's 38.0-39.Xgig depending on FAT32, FAT16 or NTFS format

and 'minus' for any bad sectors.

[Shudder]

What's the total byte count on your drive? Could be 40 billion.