format 250 gig hd get 186 gigs xp pro 2

[inventor]

format 250 gig hd get 186 gigs xp pro 2

I used disk management let it pick the cluster size as I didnt know
which one to pick.

And I picked the 1st one on the primary partition.

on the capacity

200,047,001,600 bytes 186 gigs

ntfs

250 gig hd should I get more than 186 gigs?

inventor84 @ att.net

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

What is the exact brand and model of the hdd?

Are you sure it isn't a 200GB drive?

 

[Tim Slattery]

format 250 gig hd get 186 gigs xp pro 2

I used disk management let it pick the cluster size as I didnt know
which one to pick.

And I picked the 1st one on the primary partition.

on the capacity

200,047,001,600 bytes 186 gigs

I'd guess that Colin is right, and this is a 200GB disk, not 250GB .

Manufacturers quote disk sizes in decimal GB, so a disk rated as 200GB
would hold 200,000,000,000 bytes. But the systems in the computer will
give sizes in binary units. A binary GB is 2**30 =1,073,741,824. So
200 decimal GB becomes 186 binary GB.

The other possibility is that you've somehow cut your 250GB disk into
two partitions of 50GB and 200GB, and the 200 (decimal) GB partition
is showing as 186 (binary) GB.