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| Thread ID: 109306 | 2010-05-02 09:37:00 | Hard Drive Paritions | smurf (6545) | Press F1 |
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| 881678 | 2010-05-02 09:37:00 | Excuse my ignorance but my question is related to the way my hard drive is partitioned C: and D: The capacity of whole drive is supposedly 100Gig. However the C drive is showing a capacity of 44.6GB and the D drive 45.3GB a total of 89.9GB See attachment. My question is two fold....where is the remaining 10.1GB and can I use the D drive to load programmes from downloads? As you will see this drive has by far the most available space. |
smurf (6545) | ||
| 881679 | 2010-05-02 09:45:00 | When you get the larger drives like 100gb you lose a certain amount. For instance my 1000gb drives are 931gb usable space. Yes you can load applications to the D drive, usually it requires you to choose "custom install" or "advanced install" to change it. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 881680 | 2010-05-02 09:48:00 | Thanks...much appreciated:) | smurf (6545) | ||
| 881681 | 2010-05-02 09:52:00 | You could repartition the drive so the C drive has more space too. That would be my preferred option. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 881682 | 2010-05-02 10:36:00 | The HDD size you see is done in a easier number in GB - in plain english, you will have a complete HDD size in bytes. If you open Computer or My computer ( depending on OS), right click the drive/ properties, you will see the full size in bytes. An example - My 250GB drive - shows as 232GB - BUT in bytes it shows as the correct size - 250,056,704,000bytes. I know which number I would prefer to remember if asked.:) Looking at the pictures - and being a bit on the small size ( meaning hard to read the numbers correctly) , if you add up the bytes on both drives they come to roughly 96648069170 bytes -- so being an acer, there will be a small unpartitioned area. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 881683 | 2010-05-02 10:41:00 | You have not 'lost' anything, have a read of this (especially the bit on Capacity Measurement) en.wikipedia.org |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 881684 | 2010-05-02 11:10:00 | Thanks guys...Sweep when you say repartition could you explain exactly what to do and whether repartitioning would have result in any loss of data already on the C drive? I have got a copy of paragon Partition Manager which I downloaded from GOTD thinking it might come in useful one day :) | smurf (6545) | ||
| 881685 | 2010-05-03 06:25:00 | Paragon PM will do the job nicely. It will allow you to shrink the D: drive and expand the C: drive without any loss of data. Just make sure you back up any important data first, just to be safe. | Rod J (451) | ||
| 881686 | 2010-05-03 07:23:00 | Rod J explains this very well. And as said backup the data you need to save. You could also move the My Documents folder to the D: drive first. We would need to know what O/S you use in order to give more advice on how to move that. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 881687 | 2010-05-03 21:45:00 | Thanks Rod J and Sweep...........My O/S is Windows XP Home | smurf (6545) | ||
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