Re: Partitioning

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From: Art (noonehere_at_longone.net)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:15:09 -0400

"S.Heenan" <sheenan@wahs.ac> wrote in message
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> Plato wrote:
> > Lew wrote:
> >>
> >> i have windows xp installed on my computer but i noticed
> >> that when i installed it, it also had partitioned my hard
> >> drive and took 4gb of my 80gb, does anyone no the reason
> >> for this and if so is it needed and can i delete it??
> >> please reply.
> >
> > You didnt' buy a 80 gig. You bought a 76 gig. Your hard drive maker
> > lied to you about the size of their hard drive.
>
>
> LOL
>
> Try again.

S. Heenan:
I think the OP probably was referring to the 8 MB partition that is
auto-created by XP during the installation process to handle dynamic disk
information, and mistakenly referred to it as 8 GB. A advertised 80 GB hard
drive would actually have a capacity of a bit more than 74 GB.

Art

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