Just want to double check if it's normal that after formating a drive to be some used space. (Not C: drive with operating system).

I have formated drive D which has 440GB and 82mb's is used by the system. I have selected "show hidden file" and unchecked hide protecting operating files, and when you select everything on the newly formated drive D it's 0 bytes (well everything there is it's only an empty Windows Volume Information)

Also anybody with gigabyte mobo's which has enabled SATA AHCI (so working on SATA) get a message as follow just immidiately after booting

Serial ATA AHCI BIOS Version [...]

**This version supports only Hard Disk and CDROM Drives.

Please wait. This will take a few seconds.

.......

(Then I have to wait about 10 seconds and something along the lines appear)

Sata01: Not detected

Sata02: (some sort of ID for my HDD)

Sata03: Not detected

etc.

i can't say i get what you're asking.

formatting a drive results in losing an amount of space [such as formatting an 80GB drive results in only 74GB of space that can be used]. the remaining 6 gb of space is reserved to store deleted items for a short amount of time. when that 6gb gets filled [and it doesn't take long], as soon as a new item enters, the oldest normally gets removed, never to be recovered again.

other than that i cant say theres a better answer i can give.

there are hidden files that windows is unable to show however, they control how the drive is mounted, and store information about the drive, and its record. normally only Linux can view these files [or as i've ever seen].

there are hidden files that windows is unable to show however, they control how the drive is mounted, and store information about the drive, and its record. normally only Linux can view these files [or as i've ever seen].

this is exactly what he is talking about.

Messerschmitt-no matter what some space used up. you have ~440GB and that is plenty enough, 82mb isnt that much.

formatting a drive results in losing an amount of space [such as formatting an 80GB drive results in only 74GB of space that can be used]. the remaining 6 gb of space is reserved to store deleted items for a short amount of time. when that 6gb gets filled [and it doesn't take long], as soon as a new item enters, the oldest normally gets removed, never to be recovered again.

That's not quite true. The difference between 80GB (gigabyte) and 74GiB (gigibyte) is nothing. They're the exact same amount of space. The difference comes from the fact that manufacturers use the term GB to represent 1,000,000,000 bytes, while computers read 1GB as 1,073,741,824 bytes.

there are hidden files that windows is unable to show however, they control how the drive is mounted, and store information about the drive, and its record. normally only Linux can view these files [or as i've ever seen].

The 82MB in this case are reserved for NTFS information. It's perfectly normal for this space to be used.

formatting a drive results in losing an amount of space [such as formatting an 80GB drive results in only 74GB of space that can be used]. the remaining 6 gb of space is reserved to store deleted items for a short amount of time. when that 6gb gets filled [and it doesn't take long], as soon as a new item enters, the oldest normally gets removed, never to be recovered again.

That's not quite true. The difference between 80GB (gigabyte) and 74GiB (gigibyte) is nothing. They're the exact same amount of space. The difference comes from the fact that manufacturers use the term GB to represent 1,000,000,000 bytes, while computers read 1GB as 1,073,741,824 bytes.

there are hidden files that windows is unable to show however, they control how the drive is mounted, and store information about the drive, and its record. normally only Linux can view these files [or as i've ever seen].

The 82MB in this case are reserved for NTFS information. It's perfectly normal for this space to be used.

Yes, that's exactely what I wanted to know, just wanted to double check that this is normal.

Thanks a lot everybody