Wierd Possible Problem

[jellybeard999]

Just chucked a couple of spare drives into my server, a pair of 120gb WD SATA drives...

Went into drive management and all that jazz, formatted, partitioned etc etc...

They both come up 67.9gb used, 111gb free, capacity 111gb when i click on properties... any ideas ???

im assuming its the extra space on the platters or something ... but should it do this ???

Will it cause any problems ???

Theyre empty atm obviously, so now is the time to sort em out

 

[scott.holmes]

Sounds like you just need a format. If there is Data on there, it should show in My Computer with a drive letter for each, does it?

 

[jellybeard999]

Sounds like you just need a format. If there is Data on there, it should show in My Computer with a drive letter for each, does it?

i have formatted, there is no data on the drives, and yes, they show up in my computer... no partions or anything (well, technically there is 1 partition)

 

[jellybeard999]

That explain it better ??

Its a 120gb WD SATA drive
It HAS been formatted (tried quick, then non quick format)
No partitions or anything ....

2 seperate drives, both ran in raid previous with no problems

 

[Dutch Guy]

It says 67.9 Megabytes used, not Gigabytes

That is propably the MFT that takes up some space.

a 120Gb drive is actually not 120Gb usable space but 120 billion bytes which is 120,000,000,000/1024/1024/1024 = 111.7 Gigabytes

 

[jellybeard999]

It says 67.9 Megabytes used, not Gigabytes

That is propably the MFT that takes up some space.

a 120Gb drive is actually not 120Gb usable space but 120 billion bytes which is 120,000,000,000/1024/1024/1024 = 111.7 Gigabytes

i know it wont be 120gb exactly... it was the used space i was worried about...

and about mb / gb

 

[scott.holmes]

Heh, that explains it all. 67gb would be worrying, 68mb is nowt lol

Glad you got it all sorted!