new slave hard drive please help

I have just installed a new 120 gig hard drive as a slave, some one told me to take out my primary hd and format the new one with my windows 2ooo disk, which worked but lost 6 gig.
I was then told that was the wrong way to do it and should format it through disk management in admin tools, I have done this - deleted the partion, made a new partion and formatted the new hard drive, but I am still losing 6 gig is this right? because I thought, I should now have the full 120 gig.
Could somebody please help?
P.S
I have 2 hard drives in my system

 

The second formatting suggestion was the better of the two.

How are you finding out the size of the formatted drive? Could be just a reporting error or a different report layout.

What file system?

Have you tried running chkdsk /r and looking at the results. Possible you have significant bad surface areas.

 

The second formatting suggestion was the better of the two.

How are you finding out the size of the formatted drive? Could be just a reporting error or a different report layout.

What file system?

Have you tried running chkdsk /r and looking at the results. Possible you have significant bad surface areas.


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Thanks for replying

The size of the formatted drive is shown in disk management when it has been formatted also shown in my computer. (shown as drive F - new volume)

The file system is NTFS

Tried running chkdsk /r but says
Cannot lock current drive.
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts (Y/N)?

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Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts (Y/N)?

This is normal. Just answer Y and reboot. It will run the scan.

 

You're Okay, it's the manufacturer !!!

It's how the math is done by the manufacturer. If you open up Explorer or My Computer and right click on the drive, then select properties, then you'll see it has about 123 billion bytes, and is 114 gig. The manufacturer is calling it a 120 gig drive because it has over 120 billion bytes, but it's not calculated that way in the real world.

They're are actually 1073741824 bytes in a gigabyte. If it was an actual 120 gig drive, it would have about 188 billion byte, instead of about 123 billion. I'm not sure, but it may say this on the box.

Bottom line, you have a 114 gig drive and nothing is amiss. Like me you were cheated out of 6 gig because of the manufacturers way of defining the size.

Hope this helps.

PS: In case you don't know how it's calculated, here you go:

Kbyte = 1024 bytes
Mbyte = 1024 Kbytes (or 1048576 bytes)
Gbyte = 1024 Mbytes (or 1073741824)

If you divide the drive capacity is bytes by the above number for gigabytes, then you'll see it comes to about 114.4917 gig.

 

Nice one
Thanks for your help
Ill be passing this site onto my mates