Vostro 1400 Hard Disk Shown 152 G.B instead of 160 G.B

hi Dear Friends,

I have Got the Vostro 1400, with 2.0 GHZ speed, and 160 G.B Hard Drive

I have reinstalled the Operating System two times, both with windows vista and xp, every time I have made the partitions, even I manually created the partitions during installation but unfortunately the hard disk does not shows not more than 152 G.B of storage, since I have been offered the 160 G.B hard disk, so I am very confused about it. I dont know that how I can use or see the hard disk as 160 G.B?

If any body knows the solution then I will be thankful to him/her.

 

This is, unfortunately, normal. A 160GB drive has 160,000,000,000 bytes in it...but a computer reads that as ~152GB.

This is because computers and people definite a GB two different ways.
People...use 1GB = 1000MB
Computers...use 1GB = 10 24MB

So there is nothing wrong. If you search around the forums you'll find better explanations than what I have just given, but that is the basic idea right there.

 

Dear Greg,

Thanks for your reply, you are correct there are two perspectives,
But the windows should show the capacity of 160 G.B, while i created the 4 partitions, three are show of sizes 39 G.B and 4th is show 31 G.B so still i am confused, because with normal hard disks of desktops that problem i have never seen and the capacity is show according to the size of disk, here 8 G.B is missing in the last partition.

 

no this is the same with all hard drives, Even in my destop the 250GB drive shows up only as 232GB.

this is quite normal

 

I think there's already a sticky on this? If there's none, there really ought to be one.

"160 GB" or any size advertised will never show 160 GB on a system because commercial definition of 1GB is 1,000,000,000 bytes [1000^3] when in fact, "real" 1GB is 1,073,741,824 [1024^3]. So what you get will always be less than what is advertised.