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 Posted: Thu, 22nd Sep 2005 12:33 Post subject: HDD PROBLEM |
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I have a 160GB HDD and recently i reinstalled windows on it after formating it.
When I finished I noticed that windows showed the hhd with 132GB capacity.
I used partition magic to see if there were any unpartitioned space but nothing found.
I also used a program called HdRegeneration and I scanned all sectors without finding any bad/ defective ones.
Do anyone have a clue to what happened the rest of my HDD space (around 20gb).
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Sep 2005 13:45 Post subject: |
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Thanks mate for the quich response. I will check the links i'll see what i can do.
About the third tip, there is no unpartitioned space throught windows disk management.
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ollax
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Sep 2005 14:07 Post subject: |
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Just install sp1 and you should be fine!
Of all the things i've lost, i miss my mind the most!
"Ozzy Osbourne"
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Sep 2005 15:39 Post subject: |
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FYI ...
When you create a partition, windows "steals" ALOT of gigz on bigger drives(NTFS) for the index service... in ex my 120 gig IBM-HD shows only 115 gig in "my computer", and my 120 gig MAXTOR only has 114 gig... http://www.disciple.dk/mycom.jpg
dough 28 gig for the partition seems quite alot. hmmm
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Sep 2005 17:17 Post subject: |
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| Photish wrote: | FYI ...
When you create a partition, windows "steals" ALOT of gigz on bigger drives(NTFS) for the index service... in ex my 120 gig IBM-HD shows only 115 gig in "my computer", and my 120 gig MAXTOR only has 114 gig... http://www.disciple.dk/mycom.jpg
dough 28 gig for the partition seems quite alot. hmmm |
Thats not windows you muppet, thats just the difference between BITS and BYTES, and the way computers read the information in binary form rather than decimal (which is used by creators to calculate the size).. ALL hard drives which state to be a size are lower in reality.
http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v30/vic30.htm - More info
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Sep 2005 18:12 Post subject: |
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To have more than the 132 / 137gb's, download this file and run it.
Then partition the rest of the HDD..
I hate you.
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| Posted: Fri, 23rd Sep 2005 09:41 Post subject: |
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| Stealth88 wrote: | To have more than the 132 / 137gb's, download this file and run it.
Then partition the rest of the HDD.. |
Thank you all for your replies.
Stealth88 can you tell me what this registry file does?
if i apply it having intalled sp1 first will fix my hdd problem.
Because i did not mention that before if have windows XP installed.
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