installing hard drives

I hope some can help me I am running an AMD1.2ghz with 256mb ram using xp.I have at present got a 20gb hard drive as ny c: drive. I have installed a Western Digital 120gb drive as a slave but XP only sees it as a 111gb. I tried to get fdisk but that is not available with xp.I did try boot to dos using a boot disk. can some one tell me how to reset hard drive using xp and get the full 120gb. I know I will lose a few mb during format but 9gb is a bit much

 

Marketing ploy

My friend has a 120 G HDD too. It is 120 G where 1 gig is = to 1,000,000,000 bytes, where it really = 1,073,741,824 bytes. So it's kind of like a legal marketing ploy. It really only is 111 GB, and nothing is wrong. My 40's only show up as 37.25. It's just somethin' you gotta live with.

 

Had same problem with my 20/60 GB drives. was only getting 19.1/55.7 in XP. Called WD and questioned it. The tech told me same as CORT said above. It's all marketing ploy. Only tech made it sound as though MS was at fault with this saying that MS uses a different method to figure their figures....lol. Nothing to worry about.

 

yeah, they wouldn't blame themselves =P
Technically it is supposed to be 1024 because it's a perfect square, because that's what they've been using for computers

However, even more technically it's 1000 because that's the metric system =P
kilo
mega
giga
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peta
exo
etc..

 

thanks all for the information have now sorted hard drive with both your help and western digital. the drive now works and xp sees it as it should although the difference with what it says and what the manufacturers say is misleading they should say what the o/s will id it as instead of just saying what the drive is. thanks again all