30 GB missing!!!!!

[computerwizard]

I have a harddisk 160 GB... Westerndigital....... I formated it a month back... It is later that i realised that it is only showing 128GB.... What would be the the reason for this.... What is the the solution for the problem.. Help me out...............

[Captain Digit]

What is the configaration of your system?
What Operating System are you using?

[aditya169]

try using fdisk and is is there some free space

[siriusb]

Ain't that got something do with XP? So I am assumuing u got xp.
If u don't have SP2, install and see. Also, search for 48bit lba support for XP. There's plenty of times this query has been answered.

[Chirag]

Same prob. there was with me.

Follow the following steps :-

1) Right click on "My Computers". (A window will appear)
2) Go to Manage. (on left)
3) (on left side) under "Storage option" go to "Disk Management"
4) See the sizes of each drive. If there is somewhere written 32 GB Free Space then create a new drive with that 32 GB.

(My prob. was solved with this)

Tell me if this helped u.

[computerwizard]

thanks for the reply....
No i dont think its the problem with the config bcoz i tried on two computers... But i formated the disk using windows disk management... So the problem isnt sovled even here.... Can any one helpme out..... wait i havnt tried out the "48bit lba support for XP" posted by siriusb that might work........ and hope it does

[ammusk]

i also recently purchased a 160GB
however when i formatted it
it showed me 149 GB

better check with ur vendor

[Chirag]

Same prob. there was with me. 

Follow the following steps :- 

1) Right click on "My Computers". (A window will appear) 
2) Go to Manage. (on left) 
3) (on left side) under "Storage option" go to "Disk Management" 
4) See the sizes of each drive. If there is somewhere written 32 GB Free Space then create a new drive with that 32 GB. 

(My prob. was solved with this) 

Tell me if this helped u

U don't have to format the drive from Disk Management.

Tell me what u see in ur Disk Management Window

[khattam_]

If XP, use the Logical Disk Manager under computer management (Start>Run>Compmgmt.msc) and ook for the lost space and create a drive in it...........

Use professional toolz(such as PQMAGIC) for more options (like merging it to curent partitions and such.............)

Hope it helps

[siriusb]

Now really. This is a documented problem. As pointed out already, it has to do with the 48 bit lba support in xp. Atleast that's what's google saying. Here, take a lo0k:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...en-us%3B303013

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=6682

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1115/

[babumuchhala]

are u sure u didnt miss any partition during installation.

Insert ur Win XP cd and reboot and go upto the partition see if it shows any free space. I think it should. Make that partion raw by defining its limits.

Reboot without CD go to My Computer it will show u an RAW space format it and thats it.

[busyanuj]

Originally Posted by ammusk

i also recently purchased a 160GB
however when i formatted it
it showed me 149 GB

there's no problem with your hard drive, because the hard drive manufacturers make all hard drives according to the capacity in multiples of million units.

where as actually 1 kb = 1024 bytes and 1mb = 1024 kb and so on.

so, a 160 gb hard drive is actually 149.011 gb only in size.

[siriusb]

Originally Posted by busyanuj

there's no problem with your hard drive, because the hard drive manufacturers make all hard drives according to the capacity in multiples of million units.

where as actually 1 kb = 1024 bytes and 1mb = 1024 kb and so on.

so, a 160 gb hard drive is actually 149.011 gb only in size.

160 minus 149.011 ain't 30GB, which is what the OP seems to be missing. How about going to here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...en-us%3B303013

[busyanuj]

Originally Posted by ammusk

i also recently purchased a 160GB
however when i formatted it
it showed me 149 GB

Originally Posted by busyanuj

there's no problem with your hard drive, because the hard drive manufacturers make all hard drives according to the capacity in multiples of million units.

where as actually 1 kb = 1024 bytes and 1mb = 1024 kb and so on.

so, a 160 gb hard drive is actually 149.011 gb only in size.

Originally Posted by siriusb

160 minus 149.011 ain't 30GB, which is what the OP seems to be missing. How about going to here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...en-us%3B303013

if you notice carefully, I had addressed ammusk's query, not computerwizard's query

[siriusb]

Oops, sorry busyanuj, didn't notice that quote.
Oi, computerwizard, did any of the suggestions work?