hidden partition question

[ssvapk]

I have disabled the Predeskto area in the BIOS. But still I don't see the 5GB space. Out of 80 Gb I see only 75 GB.

[beerak]

I have disabled the Predeskto area in the BIOS. But still I don't see the 5GB space. Out of 80 Gb I see only 75 GB.

quite common, don't worry. You can't get full size never A couple of space belongs to the table (e.g. for my 40GB drive it is 1Gig of wasted space). It depends on the drive formatting and the size of clusters.

[mysbca]

I have disabled the Predeskto area in the BIOS. But still I don't see the 5GB space. Out of 80 Gb I see only 75 GB.

Manufacturers describe GB as 1000**3 bytes, but Windows reports GB as 1024**3. Your "80GB" drive is actually 74.5GB.

See more details here:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=14138

[Puttagee]

The Predesktop Area is usually hidden from the OS even though you've disabled it in the BIOS. You will need something like Partition Magic, Ghost, etc. to view it.
Check out this link for more info ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/ac ... a_aibm.pdf