Samsung SP1614N Problem

[BooST]

160GB PATA Drive that's showing up as 131G in Windows Disk management,

ASUS A7V600 Motherboard, latest bios

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[BooST]

Sorry, running XP Pro, everything updated. I can't figure this one out. I know there will be some storage loss, but 30G seems a little too much.

 

[ddrueding]

I have the exact same drive and it appears as 149GB, so you aren't crazy.

No advice for you though, sorry.

 

[Mercutio]

Was it the first drive in the system? XP can only format a PATA drive to 128GB at install time. I usually format/prep on a different PC before I install, which allows XP to use the full capacity of the drive.

 

[BooST]

It's and additional drive, not the inital drive. I think he formatted it through the windows install disk thought, which might explain it.

Thanks Merc

 

[sechs]

One of the service packs fixes this. I think it's SP1.

 

[LiamC]

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2601

 

[LiamC]

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2601

 

[LiamC]

Damn proxy issues!

 

[Noc616]

I also have a samsung but this is a SP1604N it was supposed to be a 160gb but i only have 149gb too, i am running on xp pro sp2 so i think thats the real size.

 

[ddrueding]

I also have a samsung but this is a SP1604N it was supposed to be a 160gb but i only have 149gb too, i am running on xp pro sp2 so i think thats the real size.

149GB is the correct size for this drive. You are using the entire drive.

 

[Buck]

I also have a samsung but this is a SP1604N it was supposed to be a 160gb but i only have 149gb too, i am running on xp pro sp2 so i think thats the real size.

Just to help clarify and add to David's comment, hard drive manufacturers define a megabyte as 1,000,000 bytes and a gigabyte as 1,000,000,000 bytes. This is a decimal (base 10) measurement and is the industry standard. However, certain system BIOSs, FDISK and Windows define a megabyte as 1,048,576 bytes and a gigabyte as 1,073,741,824 bytes. Mac systems also use these values. These are binary (base 2) measurements. This is why different utilities will report different capacities for the same drive. This is similar to the difference between 0 degrees Celsius and 32 degrees Fahrenheit. It is the same temperature, but will be reported differently depending on the scale you are using.