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wd 160gb hdd  Last response: in Storage  Ok I just built my
first system. It is a p4c800-e deluxe W.d. 160gb harddrive O.s.
Is win xp and ubuntu I had ubuntu loaded and I reformated the
ubuntu partition with magic partition. Now it only reads 149gb
under win xp. I tried to load ubuntu back on and the partition
part told it can't cause there are bad sectors. Is there a way I
can get back up to 160gb. I did checkdisk under win xp and it
didn't find anything.  Sorry for the long post and a few
misspelled words. Using my blackberry to post this.  More about
: 160gb hdd  Best solution  Dude 149Gb IS the size of your HDD.
Same as I have a 320Gb but it's actually 298Gb, same as I also
have a 1Tb which is actually only 931Gb. I'm not going to bother
going into why this is, just accept it.  well, the short
explanation is drive mfrs say 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes, and OS
vendors say a GB is 2 ^ 30 (I think) bytes, which is more then
1,000,000,000 so it's the