my hard drive , WD

[æArchOAngelæ]

i just got a new 80 gig had drive and my bios and my devise manager sees it but i dont see it in my computer icon as a storage thing, how do i get it to show?

 

[Simon]

i had that prob u shood try 2 format it

 

[æArchOAngelæ]

yeah i forgot to format it, i thought about doing it then thought i did it, but i didnt... hah, what a riot. but its an 80 gig but it only has 74 gigs

 

[EricB]

a 74.5 gig hard drive is 80 gigs. major's response

http://www.techist.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37125

 

[æArchOAngelæ]

oh ok i get it, thanks man. so its really 80 gigs pretty much windows just uses a different way to display it

 

[TheMajor]

Yep.... its still 80GB in decimal, though Sounds larger