Hard Drives w/ X 64-bit

[sickness]

I'm running XP 64-bit and I've got 3 hard drives, a 37GB Raptor, and two 120 GB WD's. In My Computer, the two 120s are only showing up as 111GBs. Now, I realize that they shouldn't be 120 exactly. Is there some HD cap on the 64-bit version that I'm not aware of?

 

[Nitestick]

do the math yourself. hdd size as reported by manufacturer is in metric i.e. one kilobyte=1000 bytes. a true kilobyte is 1024 bytes. now take 120,000,000,000 bytes and divide that by 1,073,741,824 (number of bytes in a true gigabyte) and you should get 111.758708953857421875. tada your hdd is perfectly normal.

 

[sickness]

Like I said above, I know a 120 GB hard drive won't be exactly 120 GBs, but I thought 111 GB was kind of low. I guess not. Thanks for the answer.

 

[cobalt817]

a formatted HD will apear to be smaller since in the format there are areas of the disk that are not wriiten on between clusters.

 

[Nitestick]

true but only to a very small extent. the real reason is because the manufacturers are tricky and like i said they use 1000 bytes to the kilobyte rather than 1024.

 

[Static_11]

thanks for the info... i feel jipped now >_<