Bought New Hard Drive, Doesnt recognize full 320GB

I bought and installed and new Seagate 320GB Hard Drive with 16mb memory cashe. I booted up vista install and I can only get around 290ish of the whole 320GB. Is there any way to get tha full 320 or am I stuck with what I have? Thanks for the answer and help.

Aaron

That's normal, it happens because they advertise as 1GB=1000MB but your OS recognises 1GB=1024MBmarkop2003

Yes that is right. Hard drive manufacturers have always did it this way. It is worse when you get 500GB or 1TB and find more and more Gigabytes 'missing' from your drive.

As everyone else said, it's normal since manufacturers and the OS measure 1 GB differently.

With any hard drive size, expect to lose about 7% of the advertised size.