Detecting 100GB disk when it should be 120GB

[Macca]

Hi,
Ive just bought a new120GB Western digital JB ATA100 8mb cache hard disk.

I'm running Win98 and after installing the disk and running Partition
Manager it shows the undefined disk as 106273.7Mb ie just over 100GB. I know
that the actual capacity advertised by manufacturers id a little bit over
what it is but should there be nearly 20Gb missing?

I'd appreciate any comments as to why this might be.

Thanks
Macca

 

[Cari]

120gb.... should be recognized by Windows as 111.7gb - in binary MB it's
114,440mb.

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[Halfgaar]

Hi,
Ive just bought a new120GB Western digital JB ATA100 8mb cache hard disk.

I'm running Win98 and after installing the disk and running Partition
Manager it shows the undefined disk as 106273.7Mb ie just over 100GB. I
know that the actual capacity advertised by manufacturers id a little bit
over what it is but should there be nearly 20Gb missing?

I'd appreciate any comments as to why this might be.

Thanks
Macca

What does the BIOS say about it, how big is it there? If 120 GB means
120000000000 bytes, it's actually 117 gb. 20 gb is too much a difference.
Does fdisk or some other partionsoftware show any unallocated space?
Perhaps you've not allocated 100% of the drive.

Halfgaar

 

[Macca]

I have an ABIT KR7A RAID motherboard and tried to connect it to one of the
RAID IDE ports so it didnt have to be a slave to my old hard disk. When i
changed it to be a slave it recognised the correct amount,

Macca

 

[Halfgaar]

I have an ABIT KR7A RAID motherboard and tried to connect it to one of the
RAID IDE ports so it didnt have to be a slave to my old hard disk. When i
changed it to be a slave it recognised the correct amount,

Macca

Hmm, I find that strange and it shouldn't do that.

Halfgaar