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Maxtor 160Gig HDD Questions...

  • 10-08-2004 11:07pm
    #1
    MrVestek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,260 ✭✭✭


    Hrm, my new 160gig HDD arrived from Komplett today. One thing that was annoying me is that the full capacity of the drive is actually 153 gigs and the formatted space is 151 (or thereabouts). Why does this always happens with disks? Also, it's a Maxtor drive, and it's sooooo loooud. Sound slike those old 1 gigs ya used to have in systems that grated... errrk... errkkkkk... unk unk... errrrkkkkk. Any way to quieten it down, besides buying a kit? Is it this loud for anyone else?


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  • #2
    OfflerCrocGod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,336 ✭✭✭OfflerCrocGod


    Yes when formatted you will "lose" space and also Hard Drive makers actually mis-label their Hard Drives so 1GB is 1,000 MB instead of 1'024MB. When you format your file system is being placed down on the hard drive, that of course takes up space.


  • #3
    MrVestek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,260 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    I knew that but a friend of mine bought the same capacity drive (different make) from the same place and his full capacity is 163GB, on a 160GB hdd. hrm...? Also, another question man, i replaced my old mobo with a new NF7 nForce motherboard today, andn when i tried to load the os from the hdd to back everything up i kept getting a bsod, xp didn't describe it, 2k told me it couldnt access the drive, so i went into system recovery, rain chkdsk (ran for an hour) and thought it'd be ok. nope. clean installed to the new 160gig, was fine. turns out my second partition was corrupted somehow. How in the space of changing around a mobo, and doing nothing other than taking out and putting back the ide cable and power molex to said same drive, could it have been corrupted???


  • #4
    BadCharlie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,614 ✭✭✭BadCharlie


    I have a 160gig maxtor drive and my drive is very quite. Have another 40gig drive and now thats loud. Infact my whole rig is loud but as i always have headphone on i dont notice it at all.

    As for you having to reinstall a new os im not sirprised as you changed your motherboard. Its trying to install the old drivers on your new motherboard which it does not like. A reinstall is your only way to fix it so you got to format the harddrive.


  • #5
    MrVestek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,260 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    No man you dont understand, normally windows would jsut boot but the settings would be all screwed, i've done it before. The hard drive has actually been corrupted, not the OS, the hard drive itself (old 40 gig). I think the reason the 160 sounds so loud is because i left my 40 gig hanging from the wires and touching the base of the pc as i was going to put in my 10 gig last night to copy over some stuff from that too, but then got too tired. That's probably all it is. That aside, how could simply changing the mobo corrupt a hard drive? I don't get it... Bios reads the drive fine.

    *Edit*

    Also, when windows was installing, before i formatted or put a partition table onto the drive, the total free space of the drive was exactly 153megs, the filling system and partition table are taking up 2 gigs max... so why have maxtor purposly put it at 153gigs to mislead people?


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