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| Thread ID: 55972 | 2005-03-24 01:44:00 | Hardrive showing less gigabytes?? | bigmit37 (7537) | Press F1 |
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| 337382 | 2005-03-24 01:44:00 | I have a 40 gig hard drive as my primary hardrive and I just installed a 160 gb hardrive as my slave hardrive.. I recently reformatted my computer and the 40 gig hardrive is showing as a 32 gig hardrive and for some reason I only have 22 gigs left...so apprently 10 gigs have been used up and I have no idea where it is being used up...I only installed a few things like xp 2 and antivirus and the essentials.. Then I check the new hardrive and it shows up 149 gigs with 148 gigs free..I have installed anything yet in the new hardrive... Does anyone know why this happening...and by the way he are pics of what i mean img230.exs.cx img194.exs.cx |
bigmit37 (7537) | ||
| 337383 | 2005-03-24 03:05:00 | The 40Gb, what PC is/was it on? For instance a Compaq or HP often have a recovery on a hidden partition. It may be still there. It should say about 38Gb if empty. The 160Gb, drive manufacturers measure the capacity as the perceived capacity of a drive, so a 160GB drive is actually marketed using 160*1000*1000, which comes out to 160,000,000 bytes. However, when the OS recognizes the drive, it recognizes it using base 1024, or Gigabytes, so 160,000,000 bytes /1024/1024 = 152.59GB (Gigabytes). Add overhead for filesystem formatting, and you get roughly 149 Gigabytes. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 337384 | 2005-03-24 04:56:00 | The 40Gb, what PC is/was it on? For instance a Compaq or HP often have a recovery on a hidden partition. It may be still there. It should say about 38Gb if empty. The 160Gb, drive manufacturers measure the capacity as the perceived capacity of a drive, so a 160GB drive is actually marketed using 160*1000*1000, which comes out to 160,000,000 bytes. However, when the OS recognizes the drive, it recognizes it using base 1024, or Gigabytes, so 160,000,000 bytes /1024/1024 = 152.59GB (Gigabytes). Add overhead for filesystem formatting, and you get roughly 149 Gigabytes. Yeah the hardrive has a hidden partition but I have no idea how it comes out to 32....Shouldnt it be around 35...and then 10 gigs are gone...I just reformatted my computer today and my primary hardrive is down to 22 out of the 32.....and I barely installed anything just a few of the basics which should have taken up a gig or two at the max... |
bigmit37 (7537) | ||
| 337385 | 2005-03-24 06:05:00 | Depends how big the parition that was made is. FDISK it and wipe all the partitions out and start again. Then format it and it should be fine. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 337386 | 2005-03-24 06:53:00 | There might be a bad sector on your HDD... | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 337387 | 2005-03-24 09:12:00 | Depends how big the parition that was made is. FDISK it and wipe all the partitions out and start again. Then format it and it should be fine. Sorry but Im not exactly sure what FDISK is..how can i access that option (well if it is a option)..and thanx |
bigmit37 (7537) | ||
| 337388 | 2005-03-24 09:16:00 | Its a command for creating/removing partitions etc. You should be able to access it from within Windows but I would use a bootdisk and copy the FDISK command onto it if it isn't on there. |
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