Reasonable on 16 September 2010
| Saruk said: Anyone have a serious response? |
Sure. I've put in a number of different HDDs and the OS always allocates a percentate to itself. Unfortunately, it seems to do this more on a percentage basis than a fixed amount, with the result that the bigger the HDD the more it seems to grab.
There may be another reason but I'm not aware of it and I've checked to confirm the OS does allocate some HDD for its own use (understandably) and by observation it's not a fixed amount but seems related to the HDD size.
So I'm pretty sure that's where your missing space has gone.
I remember the first time I popped in a 250GB HDD and wondered where the hell the rest was after formating.
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...
