127g of 300g Hard Drive Prob

[psd99]

Yes it has given me 2 partitions on my hard drive a 127g and a 151g but still missing 12g
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB Hard Drive
(SATA, 7200 RPM, 16MB - SKU: 6B300S0)

12gb lost is expected!

i have a 320gb harrdrive and it comes up as a 305gb losing 15gb there!

 

[Me__2001]

i have 6 missing on my 120 and 11 missing on my 200

 

[stylewars]

same problem

I'm having the same problem. I have 2 of the maxtor diamondmax 10 300gb hard drives and under computer management, both of the drives says 151.48 gb unallocated. I have service pack 2 installed already. Also the drives has been reformatted before I installed everything. Any suggestions? Thanks for any help!

 

[Me__2001]

right click the unallocated space and you should be able to make a partition, it may be worth backing up important data to the other drive just to be safe

 

[muckshifter]

There is NO 'HD space missing' ... it's a numbers game HD manufacturers have played with us since time began ... 1000 v 1024 rule.

With the advent of SATA2 it makes more sense to install smaller drives, especially where the OS resides ... 300gig HDs are fine for storage, but I'll keep my OS on a 120 max ... well until 300gig 10,000rpm drives become norm.

The HD is the 'bottleneck' on today’s systems.

 

[Anara]

Does anyone know how to sort the same problem out with a 300g Seagate Hard drive? with windows 2000 with service pack 3 (Downloading Service Pack 4 atm) on it. All I'm getting is 127gb capacity...