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#1
March 10th, 2007, 07:03 PM
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| 160GB drive = 127GB formatted? I just had a new 160GB internal drive installed in my G3 iBook. It's blank but formatted (Mac OS Extended Journaled), and reports a capacity of only 127GB (127.81, to be exact). Is this normal? Is this an issue that's specific to the iBook? Or did the store install a smaller drive than they claimed to?  |
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#2
March 10th, 2007, 07:33 PM
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| Losing 8 gigabytes on a drive like that would be considered fairly normal; 30 is a bit extreme. You could try reformatting it, maybe something went awry in the last format. Is there only 1 partition? If there is only 1 partition and the drive continues to report that figure after reformatting, contact whomever installed it for you.
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March 10th, 2007, 08:40 PM
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| Having done a bit more research, this appears to be due to the iBook G3 having an older disk controller. I wish the techs at the store had bothered to tell me that before selling me the drive. |
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March 10th, 2007, 10:16 PM
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#5
March 12th, 2007, 10:33 AM
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| yes, or controller can't see anything over 127gig, as its too old. and with an ibook, there isn't anything that you can do about it either.
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