Missing space on my harddisk drive

[jaensch]

Hello,

I have a problem because of missing space on my harddisk drive.

My running system:
MSI 875P Neo - Mainboard
SAMSUNG SP1604N harddisk drive with 160 MB space
Windows 2000

I installed Windows 2000 with all its service packs (last was SP4).
The file atapi.sys is also updatet on version 5.0.2195.6699.

But only 150MB space can only be used. 10MB are not shown.

Does anybody know, how the problem can be solved?
Can "partition magic" help in a way?

Thanx a lot for help

Kai Jaensch

 

[Wolf Kirchmeir]

Hello,

I have a problem because of missing space on my harddisk drive.

My running system:
MSI 875P Neo - Mainboard
SAMSUNG SP1604N harddisk drive with 160 MB space
Windows 2000

I installed Windows 2000 with all its service packs (last was SP4).
The file atapi.sys is also updatet on version 5.0.2195.6699.

But only 150MB space can only be used. 10MB are not shown.

Does anybody know, how the problem can be solved?
Can "partition magic" help in a way?

Thanx a lot for help

Kai Jaensch

The HD manufacturers measure megabytes as 1 000 000 bytes. The rest of the
industry measures a megabyte as 1 048 576 bytes (it's a power of 2, I can
never remember which one). 160 binary megabytes = 160 binary megabytes,
rounded off. IOW, there is no discrepancy, just different size measuring
methods.

HTH

 

[Wolf Kirchmeir]

The HD manufacturers measure megabytes as 1 000 000 bytes. The rest of the
industry measures a megabyte as 1 048 576 bytes (it's a power of 2, I can
never remember which one). 160 binary megabytes = 160 binary megabytes,
rounded off. IOW, there is no discrepancy, just different size measuring
methods.

HTH

That should read "150 binary megabytes = 160 decimal megabytes". Sorry about
that.

 

[Colon Terminus]

Wolf Kirchmeir came close to explaining it properly, except for an
unfortunate typo.

Do this. Right click on the drive icon in Windows. Choose "Properties" from
the menu. In the middle of the dialog box, observe the numbers after
"Capacity". See, it's all there, just expressed in different ways just like
an Enron accountant.

The problem, as wolf explained, is that Samsung expresses a gigabyte as 10^9
(they even say so on their web site) whereas Windows sees a gigabyte as
2^30.