34.3GB HDD??

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benplaut · #1 Post by **benplaut** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 2:34 pm

not much time to write... but on my T40, which should have a 40gb HDD, in C: Properties, it only shows it as 34.3GB. I need those 5.7GB!!! any way to get them??

ThinkPad · #2 Post by **ThinkPad** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 2:36 pm

Its probably used up in the partition?

Zeitgeist · #3 Post by **Zeitgeist** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 2:39 pm

ftp://www.thinkpads.com/pub/predesktop.pdf

benplaut · #4 Post by **benplaut** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 2:58 pm

Zeitgeist wrote:ftp://www.thinkpads.com/pub/predesktop.pdf

thanks soo much... thats the culprit!

any way to get rid of that partition (or at least make it >.5GB)?

i need all the space i can get... 40GB isn't too big these days

etherealtml · #5 Post by **etherealtml** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:03 pm

I don't know if there is a way, but there are many alternatives for storage space you should look into. My first choice would be an external DVD writer, and my second choice would be to buy a second hard drive and put it into an external enclosure.

However, I know how you feel about losing the hdd space. Really though, how smart can it be to store a backup onto the same disk that you are trying to protect?

sugo · #6 Post by **sugo** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 6:27 pm

bplaut wrote: any way to get rid of that partition (or at least make it >.5GB)?

You can disable predesktop partition in BIOS and then repartition your hard drive.

mdarnton · #7 Post by **mdarnton** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:01 pm

Which was the first thing I did, but when I quickly ran out of space, I bought a new 80Gb drive and cloned my old one off onto it, and then bought one of thse for the old drive: http://www.digmind.com/store/index_500.html Now I'm completely happy. In the drive space and music departments, anyway.

benplaut · #8 Post by **benplaut** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:31 pm

sugo wrote:
bplaut wrote: any way to get rid of that partition (or at least make it >.5GB)?
You can disable predesktop partition in BIOS and then repartition your hard drive.

would that erase the HDD? if so, i can live with 34.3 GB

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buying a new drive is a viable choice, but i spent all my loose change on the TP, and don't have much to spare... I guess i'll just have to live with it

mdarnton · #9 Post by **mdarnton** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 7:59 am

No, that doesn't erase what you have already--it just removes the stuff that is hidden. I can't remember exactly what happened when I did it, I've been doing so much with my drive lately--I think I still had the same size C: drive, but in addition I had a big hunk of unallocated space that I then formed as another partition. Then, eventually, I merged the two together.

While I was doing all this I had lots of backups waiting in the wings in case anything anything horrible happened, because I had NO idea what I was doing, but it came out all right. I recommend you get a copy of Acronis TrueImage--it's real handy for whole-disk backups, which is something I now believe strongly in, haveing needed and used it a couple of times.

syhead · #10 Post by **syhead** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:18 pm

is this Acronis TrueImage better than Norton Ghost?
I've been using Norton Ghost, but never used the image to restore my system. I wonder if this will work when I need it.

Leon · #11 Post by **Leon** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:31 pm

I believe it is better, more stable, and more reliable. Of course, others may disagree. Download the free trial from their site, decide for yourself, and report back.

http://reviews.cnet.com/Acronis_True_Im ... =cnetfd.sd

atlacatl · #12 Post by **atlacatl** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:02 pm

Deleting the partition would help, but, you would NEVER get exactly 40 GB of storage in an advertised 40 GB hard drive...It's the way manufacturers round 1024 KB to 1000 KB...I know, it sounds like false advertising to me...Somehow, it is legal...

Read about 6 paragraphs down from the start, and there is a detailed explanation:
http://www.josesandoval.com/2005/01/ipo ... sizes.html

benplaut · #13 Post by **benplaut** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 1:57 am

mdarnton wrote:No, that doesn't erase what you have already--it just removes the stuff that is hidden. I can't remember exactly what happened when I did it, I've been doing so much with my drive lately--I think I still had the same size C: drive, but in addition I had a big hunk of unallocated space that I then formed as another partition. Then, eventually, I merged the two together.

While I was doing all this I had lots of backups waiting in the wings in case anything anything horrible happened, because I had NO idea what I was doing, but it came out all right. I recommend you get a copy of Acronis TrueImage--it's real handy for whole-disk backups, which is something I now believe strongly in, haveing needed and used it a couple of times.

what program did you use?

Hippo · #14 Post by **Hippo** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:32 am

atlacatl wrote:It's the way manufacturers round 1024 KB to 1000 KB...I know, it sounds like false advertising to me...Somehow, it is legal...

As long as they state 'We define 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes" its legal

mdarnton · #15 Post by **mdarnton** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:56 am

My "40GB" drive is now living in one of these, http://www.digmind.com/store/index_500.html , which has no hidden stuff, and the system reports 37.25Gb as the size of the drive.

I've been using TrueImage for about a year for backups. One aspect that I believe is better than Ghost is that it allows you to browse your compressed backup archive for an individual file and open just that file, if you need to do so, by temporarily mounting the backup as another drive (TrueImage does the thinking--to do it, you click on an icon). You can do incremental backups, but I just do a new full one, and wipe one of the early ones at the same time. When I switched disks, TrueImage cloned the old disk over to the new one, and I dropped the new one into the computer--no issues, and that's probably the same as Ghost.

JLai · #16 Post by **JLai** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 8:52 am

I just said screw it and upgraded to a 100 GB Seagate Momentus.

Leon · #17 Post by **Leon** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 8:58 am

good decision....

atlacatl · #18 Post by **atlacatl** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:29 am

Hippo wrote: As long as they state 'We define 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes" its legal

I have to look closely and find such claim - I've never seen it anywhere...

Leon · #19 Post by **Leon** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:48 am

yes, they ALWAYS do somewhere in the small print....

atlacatl · #20 Post by **atlacatl** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:32 am

Leon wrote:yes, they ALWAYS do somewhere in the small print....

I guess that's why they call it small print - Thanks for the info...

benplaut · #21 Post by **benplaut** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 3:54 pm

JLai wrote:I just said screw it and upgraded to a 100 GB Seagate Momentus.

how much do they cost?

JLai · #22 Post by **JLai** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:08 pm

bplaut wrote:
JLai wrote:I just said screw it and upgraded to a 100 GB Seagate Momentus.
how much do they cost?

I got mine for ~$170

benplaut · #23 Post by **benplaut** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:24 pm

JLai wrote:
bplaut wrote: how much do they cost?
I got mine for ~$170

too much

dfumento · #24 Post by **dfumento** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:29 pm

"I got mine for ~$170"

Where?

JLai · #25 Post by **JLai** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 5:10 pm

dfumento wrote:"I got mine for ~$170"

Where?

BestBuy with a CompUSA price match.

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