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Hello friends.I have purchased 160 GB hard disk when I see the capacity of the disk through fdisk it shows 160 GB but if I want to format it, it ...
  1. 08-03-2007 #1
    albertspade
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    External USB hard disk detects 149 GB out of 160 GB

    Hello friends.I have purchased 160 GB hard disk when I see the capacity of the disk through fdisk it shows 160 GB but if I want to format it, it detects only 149 GB of it.Whether I have to download some patch for it.I am using windows xp and , opensuse 10.2.And I have the same problem with both the operating systems.

    Please help me tosort it out.
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  2. 08-03-2007 #2
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    Unless someone was to change the Modules (Physical), No Hard-Drive is EXACTLY what It says on the tin. I have a '160Gb' hard-drive and it too has 149Gb Capacity. If you get a 350Gb Hard drive, yet again, it won't be the exact amount.

    There is pretty much no way you can change this. You'll just have to accept it.

    Nearly all hard drives will not be exact. It's all to do with sufficient amount of sectors and modules. It is slightly like when you have an in-build video card. It takes V-Ram from your system RAM, so your PC won't detect 512, but 504Mb of RAM. Never be too expectant of what you get.

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    No, formatted capacity is always less. Some friend told me once marketing likes big numbers and they count bytes in a decimal system instead of binary to make it look bigger. Not sure though

    You can't do anything about it, except getting a bigger hard drive
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