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Mephisto2 · 08-10-2003, 02:20 PM

There is a difference between the native "capacity" of a disk and the actual amount of formatted space that a disk provides.

Rather than post a lengthy technical disertation on this, I've included a link below (from Seagate's website, but most HDD manufacturers will have something simliar) that describes this discrepancy in detail.

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/bytes.html

Now, having said that, a 33Gb short-fall does seem quite large.

As other posters have stated, check your partitions via Control Panel, Disk Management.

Mr Mephisto

08-10-2003, 02:20 PM	#6 (permalink)
Mephisto2 Junkie	There is a difference between the native "capacity" of a disk and the actual amount of formatted space that a disk provides. Rather than post a lengthy technical disertation on this, I've included a link below (from Seagate's website, but most HDD manufacturers will have something simliar) that describes this discrepancy in detail. http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/bytes.html Now, having said that, a 33Gb short-fall does seem quite large. As other posters have stated, check your partitions via Control Panel, Disk Management. Mr Mephisto