maximizing 160gb hdd

[EarlZ]

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how much is the 160GB supposed to be detected anyway ?

[Creed-X]

In BIOS hardrive detection settings, try changing the access mode to "LBA mode". And repartition your drive using NTFS File System.

[king_coy]

i think there's a registry setting na ma-download gikan sa seagate site. dili ko sure pero i think its about LBA also.

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/utils.html

[tokidoki]

EarlZ is correct regarding this thread. Naa difference from what the drive is supposed to have. This is due to the bitcount to a byte in computer storage terms. I'm not sure if that's exactly it. Ask a computer engineer why this is so. As for me, what I understood is the computation of the bits. Something about about 1 byte is actually 1024 and not 1000 as you would expect.

So it should be something like 160gb / 1024 = 156gb - minus the size of the partition table pa. And here's another thing to note: The larger your drive, the larger the partition table it will take on it.

In my case, I have a 200gb hard drive but only 190 is actually ever displayed. So, that's 200gb / 1024 yields roughly 195gb. Minus the partition table pa. So i'd probably say around 180gb or so.

This has COMPLETELY nothing to do with LBA support.

[EarlZ]

@tokidoki

100% correct, unless the motherboard it self was produced in 1999 or 2000 for not having a support on that size of HD's.

I think its windows that doing 1k bits as the counting and on hardware its 1024.

[bossdak]

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=14597

tinuod kaha ni?

[Creed-X]

EarlZ is correct regarding this thread. Naa difference from what the drive is supposed to have. This is due to the bitcount to a byte in computer storage terms. I'm not sure if that's exactly it. Ask a computer engineer why this is so. As for me, what I understood is the computation of the bits. Something about about 1 byte is actually 1024 and not 1000 as you would expect.

So it should be something like 160gb / 1024 = 156gb - minus the size of the partition table pa. And here's another thing to note: The larger your drive, the larger the partition table it will take on it.

In my case, I have a 200gb hard drive but only 190 is actually ever displayed. So, that's 200gb / 1024 yields roughly 195gb. Minus the partition table pa. So i'd probably say around 180gb or so.

This has COMPLETELY nothing to do with LBA support.

indeed bro, but 137GB out of 160 is horrid.

[cebutech]

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=14597

tinuod kaha ni?

you forgot to read UPDATE III?
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=14608


for western digital drive users:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32683

"window is stealing my hd size"
http://discuss.extremetech.com/forum.../ShowPost.aspx

[tokidoki]

interesting. overclocking of hard drives. LOL. or shall i say "overspacing"? hehehe...

[dagget]

ako 160gb seagate SATA

reported sa properties kay 149gb

okay na siguro ni