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Ok, so so I got a 16gb SDHC class 10 card for my Pi because it was all the store had & it was only $20 on sale. Anyway, I followed the guides and used win32 disk imager on it to add the mine peon img file. After that I went to the drive in My Computer and viewed it's properties and it's showing used space 0 bytes and 89.8mb free space... so WTF just happened ? I went back in to properties and hit format and nothing happened, still showing the DRASTICALLY reduced drive size.

Edit: This is what computer management shows in XP...

http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/sd_weirdness.bmp

Remove the two partition and reformat it?
Right clic the 90mb, delete, right clic the other one, delete, then format it again and set it to use all the space

That's just it, I don't know how as sad as that sounds. I just would like to know why I ot this drastically reduced size. Not too sure on exactly how the image works and if the new size crap is somethin minepeons imaging does to be funny.

It created a partition 90mb big and let the rest unallocated, so of course it is seen as 90mb big only. You have to delete them and reformat it.

Ok, I think I got it but is this normal for an SD card thats advertised as 16b to only show around 14.8 in size ?

http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/sd_weirdness2.bmp

Duh that's normal.
Google'd it for you: http://petapixel.com/2012/10/10/why-hard-drives-and-memory-cards-have-less-space-than-advertised/

Thx, I guess I coulda googled that but it didnt hit me, I go numb when I get shocked lol

Ok, so I gues it's time to close this thread and now make a more appropriate one as to properly getting this set up for my Pi.

Ty to all for your assistance !