G5 Dual 2.3 GHz Not Recognizing all of 2nd hard drive space

I just installed a 2nd Western Digital SATA II 500gb internal hard drive. It is only recognizing 465gb. I formatted the drive after installing. Just wondering if any one else has seen this issue before.

Sounds like you are counting to 1000 by stopping at 1000 instead of stopping at 1024 like you should.
Short answer is that one way of counting is used by the marketing division (and for printing the box) and the other is used by your computer. So nothing is wrong.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte under "Consumer confusion" for a more in depth explanation of GB vs GiB.

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Did you try Király's suggestion about logging on using a different user account? If necessary, create a new, troubleshooting-only administrative user account (so that all user preferences are freshly created from defaults). If the test user account behaves as expected, that points to a user preference (or possibly the Desktop). Moving the preference file Király mentioned to the Trash or a holding folder, then logging out and back, would be a good start.
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I was thinking of getting a MacBook however I'm a bit worried about it not having enough memory or hard drive space unlike other laptop?

oother laptops have 500gb or 250gb or 1tb so I was a bit worried about the macbook storage and if it will be enough?

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The 13” MBA has an SD RAM slot and there are several different products that let you put a card in that doesn’t stick out like a normal SD card would. I have a 64GB card that I keep a selection of music, video, and photos. There are also mini USB cards that have just a little nob sticking out when inserted into the computer that can provide additional space.
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Hi all !
I have a problem. I'm have a macbook pro Santa Rosa =
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
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Before restarting, I have this error :
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/6606/26048579.jpg
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Type : Disk
Partition Map Scheme : GUID Partition Table
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