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Thread ID: 65246	2006-01-12 00:48:00	250gig hard drive appears as 450gig	Greven (91)	Press F1

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420411	2006-01-12 00:48:00	check out the screenshot at www.imagef1.net.nz & tell me if you can think of any reason for windows to think that my 250 gig hard drive is actually 450gig. Seagate Barracuda ST3250823AS Hard Disk Drive, 250GB, 7200rpm, 8192KB Cache, SATA-1/150, with NCQ connected to a Sunix Serial ATA Adapter Card, 2 Port, PCI. The unknown partitions belong to Mandriva Linux	Greven (91)
420412	2006-01-12 00:50:00	Faulty?	Prescott (11)
420413	2006-01-12 00:54:00	Man, I've never seen so many partitions on one disk! Is this a file server, and are you attempting to restrict disk space usage by application / user? If so, there are better ways to do that. I would recommend using Symantec Partition Magic, and combine a few.	kingdragonfly (309)
420414	2006-01-12 00:59:00	Man, I've never seen so many partitions on one disk! Is this a file server, and are you attempting to restrict disk space usage by application / user? If so, there are better ways to do that. I would recommend using Symantec Partition Magic, and combine a few. Who cares? This looks like a well organised system to me.	Prescott (11)
420415	2006-01-12 01:06:00	Who cares? It affects the ability to map drive letters on a networked system, or even adding card readers, DVD players, USB drives, ... That's why God invented sub-directories. Also it's painful when you've miscalculated growth on a partition, and you run out of disk space. I know you can resize the partitions, but I always dislike doing it. Also it slow down certain file moves.	kingdragonfly (309)
420416	2006-01-12 01:31:00	It started off fairly ordered. I just have a habit of making things messy. I was going to move everything from my 80 gig over to my 250. I left 20 gig at the start of the drive for installing linux, then I left 40 gig for windows & all non-game programs, the 40 gig for installing games, then 40 gig for the game CD images, then 30 gig for my videos (mostly music videos), then 30 gig for all my random downloads, then 20 gig for my music & was going to leave the rest for various linux partitions. I think I was origionally planning on also installing SUSE, so I would have left some space for that too - thats proabably the partition I'm using to back up all my parent's stuff. hmm. strange. my current partitions take up about 270gig. Perhaps that documents partition wasn't there origionally.	Greven (91)
420417	2006-01-12 02:22:00	Are you using a product like Partition Magic to change the partition size. I think version 8.0 had a problem with more than 7 partitions on a single drive. If you do have access to Partition Magic, is it reported the same thing as disk manager? No reason to think about why it wouldn't, but worth checking. I'm not sure how the total disk space figure is stored in NTFS. I suspect it would be some type of header record. Perhaps one or more partitions have gotten confused. There is a 400GB and 500GB Seagate Barracuda, but not 450GB.	kingdragonfly (309)
420418	2006-01-12 02:53:00	Partition information is not "owned" by operating systems . It's external . . What happened to the limit of four primary partitions? Surely some of those are logical partitions inside extended partitions? All of them are shown as being of "Basic" type . What does a Linux partioning utility say about that disk? cfdisk -l /dev/hda > thatdisk . data	Graham L (2)
420419	2006-01-12 03:55:00	Mandrake moves all the partitions inside a single extended partition (that is what the green represents) so they all should be logical drives. is that cfdisk - lowercase l or uppercase i?	Greven (91)
420420	2006-01-12 04:01:00	Lowercase L "l" for "list". I think that's the option. Perhaps do cfdisk --help first. I always do that ... I know my memory is volatile. ;) So what does Windows define a "Basic" partition as?	Graham L (2)
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