Space used on a new drive?

[Wing Nut]

Well, I installed a new 120 Gig drive today, to replace the 30 gig drive I scavenged when my old 60 Gig drive died out.

[the_autopilot]

I doubt a windows install of XP takes only 68.7 megs. Something is wrong.

Perhaps it was partitioned incorrectly. Using a partition manager or the XP install cd (boot with it) to check your hard drive and see if their is unpartitioned space.

BTW, is this a SATA or IDE drive?

[Wing Nut]

It's IDE.  This is not the Windows drive.  I have another 120 Gig drive also, this is my second one giving me a total of 240.

[Scorpiоn]

That's correct Kevin.  The more gigs you have, the more that's snatched away from you.  I have 500GB, but only 465 are usable.

[Wing Nut]

Lovely...  ::)  Any suggestions as to how I can get the info from the old drive to the new one?  :)

[Scorpiоn]

What I did was I just hooked up the old drive as a slave, and copied what I needed over.  Failing that (some folders were protected, so I could only access them from the old drive's XP lon-on), I burned them on to a CD/DVD.

[Wing Nut]

Unfortunately, I have used both of my Slave/Master positions, so I have no way of just copying it...  :P

[Scorpiоn]

You do have a disk drive, right?  Perhaps you could swap out the disk drive temporarily.

What you might be able to pull off, is installing an OS on your old drive without reformatting, and using that as the master, and your new drive as the slave.  Just an idea. That shoudl work, methinks.

[Weather_Man]

The reason for the discrepancy in drive capacity is how the space is reported. The HDD manufacturers report capacity in decimal (base 10) format. The OS reports capacity based in binary (base 2) format, converted to decimal. 1000 vs. 1024, if you will.

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[Weather_Man]

-- What skorpion said.

If you are using 2 HDDs and 2 CD drives (all four IDE channels), unhook one of the CD drives and plug in the extra HDD. Then you can copy the contents over to the new HDD. Plug the CD drive back in when finished.

[GunnerMan]

Also HDD are never perfect, no plater is the same so they can get close but not often do they get it right on, especially with lower end HDDs. My RAM for instance only has 1023 megs.