New 200Gig HD only reads 186gigs

[Turbo245]

Just installed a 200gig HD in addition to my 120 and 40g HD's...Formatted in NTFS, everything runs great, but reads 186 gigs of space in "my computer"...Anyone know why? Thanks,
Ron B

[Ripper2860]

1. Formatting Overhead -- to setup the tracks and sectors it takes space
2. MFG call 1000 bytes a kilobyte when everyone else (including MS) calls it is reall 1024 bytes 1K. 1024K is the REAL numner 1000K is drive cheat for easy rounding. You should be able to do the math and see what I mean.

[rallynavvie]

All my 200GB drives show as 186GB formatted, this is normal.

[Turbo245]

All my 200GB drives show as 186GB formatted, this is normal.

Thank you sir!

[rkr1958]

200GB Harddrive ==> 200 x 1,000,000,000 Bytes ==> Convert that to Computer GB;

200,000,000,000 Bytes x 1KB/1024 Bytes x 1MB/1024KB x 1GB/1024MB

And the answer is 186.265 GB (Computer GBytes that is)

[Turbo245]

200GB Harddrive ==> 200 x 1,000,000,000 Bytes ==> Convert that to Computer GB;

200,000,000,000 Bytes x 1KB/1024 Bytes x 1MB/1024KB x 1GB/1024MB

And the answer is 186.265 GB (Computer GBytes that is)

Ummm....Uhhhhh....What? No just kidding....You have shown me the light...Thanks for all the help,
Ron

[808smokey]

turbo245 where'd you get the pic??

[Turbo245]

This is one of my three turbo wagons...You are talking about the car and not the avatar?..The avatar is my better half...
Ron

[808smokey]

This is one of my three turbo wagons...You are talking about the car and not the avatar?..The avatar is my better half...
Ron

screw the car i'm talking bout the girl

[Turbo245]

That is my wife...
Ron

[Craig Tucker]

Ron
Please resize your sig picture to confirm with our forum rules.
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[Turbo245]

Will do....Give me a couple of mins...

[Craig Tucker]

Thanks Ron, appreciate it.