Getting every bit of hard drive space to show

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soulax

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Im used to having a hard drive be a tad smaller then labeled, for instance I have a 30 gig on one of my machines, and in windows it reads about 29.3 (or something).

I recently plugged a 200GB drive into my Domain Controller, and it's showing up as only 187 GB. 13 gigs is alot of space, and I WANT IT!!!

There is only 1 partition on the drive, anyone have any ideas how I can get it much closer to the 200 mark??
 
You didn't loose anything.....

Hardrive manufactuers quote hardrive space as 1,000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte. Operating systems show hardrive space as 1,024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte.

Technically you lost nothing. Its the same amount of space, just shown in different units of measure :)
 
Binary vs. Decimal Capacity Measurements

and you loose additional space to the filesystem

Filesystems
Inside W2K NTFS Part 1
Inside W2K NTFS Part 2
The Linux Filesystem Explained
Linux Filesystems Comparison
Ext2FS
Ext3
ReiserFS
JFS for Linux
The Unix UFS Filesystem
Space efficiency SFS,FFS,AFS,FAT16,FAT32

not to mention
Defect Mapping and Spare Sectoring
and
Clusters and File Allocation


basically you loose 10% roughly between the decimal\binary
and the filesystem overhead, and it becomes more noticable the larger the HDD
 
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