Re: Hard Disk Partition Problem
- From: "Nepatsfan" <nepatsfan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:56:57 -0400
Answered inline.
In news:765EB3C1-F142-40F5-B144-B3CE58BF2E65@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
T5 <T5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi!
This means Every hard drive in the market don't have actual
space which is
written on them?
That's right. On a side note, WD settled a class action lawsuit
last year over this very issue.
Western Digital settles hard-drive capacity lawsuit
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=34245
I have used 8 partitions to categorize different data, i.e
Music, Games,
Softwares, Downloads etc on each different drive.
You certainly are free to set up your hard drive as you see
fit. That said, it's been my experience that two partition are
more than enough. The first contains the OS and installed
programs, the second contains data segregated into individual
folders.
You might want to add this web site to your Favorites. You can
download a 30 day trial version of BootIT NG when you have to
resize your partitions. It may not happen for some time, but
sooner or later one of those partitions will be full.
BootIT Next Generation
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html
Good luck
Nepatsfan
"Nepatsfan" wrote:
In news:91C84E58-C296-4511-9A7F-DB00139833CD@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
T5 <T5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi!
I am new here. This is my first post. I am having problem
with my HD space.
My HD is 320 GB Western Digital SATA-II. I have paritioned
it
using Windows
XP Installation Setup. I have created 40 GB each drive. The
problem is that
last drive shows only 18 GB of Total Capacity instead of 40
GB. Where is the
rest 22 GB?
A HD labeled 320 GB by the manufacturer actually contains
around 298 GB of hard drive space. Take a look at this
article
for more info.
Why is my drive displaying a smaller than expected capacity
than the indicated size on the drive label?
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=615&p_created=1034613413&p_sid=-5PFuDYh&p_lva=615&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD04MTUmcF9wcm9kcz0mcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3BhZ2U9MQ**&p_li=&p_topview=1
Just out of curiosity, why did you create 8 partitions? Odds
are you're going to be resizing some of those partitions in
the
future.
Good luck
Nepatsfan
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