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Cassirer · #1 Post by **Cassirer** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:49 am

o.k. what did I do wrong and how do I fix it?

having both a backup and an image of HD I figured the time had come to a) get back the 5G from the recovery partition and b) create a secured documents partition

used Partition Magic... a) deleted the old hidden partition then b) created a new partition ... so primary partition is 81.1G the second logical partition is 14.3 ... totaling 95.4G ... hmmm where is the rest?

when I deleted the hidden recovery partition ... do I not automatically regain that space? I was trying to get that space allocated to the new partition... or did I have to formate the whole drive?

o.k. what did I do wrong and how do I fix it?

thanks

steve

dorin · #2 Post by **dorin** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:03 am

hi steve,

thing is that you'll never gonna see that you have 100gb available! its the parity that 1mbyte is 1.bla bla bla mbite

for example on my 40gb hdd i can in fact use 37.26 gb...

give a right lick on the partition and you'll see "capacity" in mbytes and next to how much you can use

dorin

Cassirer · #3 Post by **Cassirer** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:14 am

hmmmm

I wish I had written down the numbers before I had done this because I am sure that before the HD was a lot closer to 100G ... but then maybe I am mistaken ...

hmm i guess I will not worry about it then, after all in the end I have space... it is just I like to understand where it went ... after all that is why i deleted the recovery partition ... but I guess you are saying that if had not i would have 5G less than I do now ...

thanks

longfellow · #4 Post by **longfellow** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:52 am

Cassirer wrote:hmmmm

I wish I had written down the numbers before I had done this because I am sure that before the HD was a lot closer to 100G ... but then maybe I am mistaken ...

hmm i guess I will not worry about it then, after all in the end I have space... it is just I like to understand where it went ... after all that is why i deleted the recovery partition ... but I guess you are saying that if had not i would have 5G less than I do now ...

thanks

Cassirer, I remember reading some where that when a hard drive is formatted for NTFS file system (which is used un Win XP) you lose approximately 5% of the total capacity. windows 98 and other older operating systems which use FAT32 file systems take up more than 15% of the total capacity. So, whatever OS ou use, you will never get to use 100% capacity of your HDD

Cassirer · #5 Post by **Cassirer** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:16 pm

ah yes ... now i see ... when I converted the new partition to NTFS it did tell me how much space was needed to do the conversion ... but I thought that was temporary ... again such is life ... now I know

thanks

kimx · #6 Post by **kimx** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:14 pm

It's not because you lose space on your hardrive, it's because harddrive manufactor uses 10 as a base, while most filesystems use 2 as a base.

example:

Harddrive manufactors says 100GB which means 100,000,000,000 byte

that translatets to 93,13GB in the filesystem where 1GB is 1024^3

read more about it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harddisk in the section "Marketing" capacity versus true capacity

hypnotik · #7 Post by **hypnotik** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:48 pm

Actually, I recall seeing something in the Thinkpad BIOS which says something like 'make hidden pre-desktop area (recovery area) available to Operating System' under configuration? Maybe this is what you need to enable?

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