Re: Partitioned Hard Drive in XP

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Update:

I am not sure if this 'helps' anyone to 'help' me but here goes:

When I right-click the 'unallocated' box and select 'Properties,
Volumes,' it says that it is a Samsung SP1654N standard disj drive
and the partition style is 'Master Boot Record.' The capacity is
152626MB. the unallocated space is 21564MB. and Reserved space is 0MB.


"Anna" wrote:


"Summer1" <Summer1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Good Day:

I bought my computer last week from a computer store and the owner
paritionrd XP into C:\ and D:\ drives.

He told me that the HD had 160GB but when I went into C:\
properties, it shows 69.3GB and D:\ properties shows 58.5GB,
totalling only 127.80GB, leaving a difference of 32.8GB.

Which is the correct amount of hard disk space-160GB or 127.80GB?


Summer1 later adds...
"Sorry everyone for making this so confusing.
These are the 'actual' numbers:
Disk O Basic 149.05 GB
C drive=69.40GB; D drive=58.59GB; Unallocated=21.06GB
C: is the primary partition; D is the logical drive; Unallocated is
the extended partition.
149.05GB is the 'actual' amount of GB-Since the 21.06GB is
'unallocated,' does that mean that I only have access to 127.99GB?
Do I want the 21.06GB partitioned back into either the C or D drive
so I have access to the 'full' 149.05?"


Summer1:
1. Your 160 GB HDD is, in binary terms, about 149 GB as indicated by
your system.

2. It's probably safe to assume that when the XP OS was installed in
your machine it did not contain any of the Service Packs. Understand
that the original XP OS would detect only about 127 GB (binary) of
disk capacity regardless of the actual size of the drive.

3. So (for one reason or another) the installer divided the HDD into
two partitions - your current C: & D: partitions totaling the 127 GB.

4. At some later date one or more of the Service Packs was added to
the OS. As a consequence of this action the full capacity of the HDD
was detected, however the remaining disk space above the
then-present 127 GB (approx) is considered "unallocated" disk space.

5. As you've been informed you can use the Disk Management utility
to create a partition/format that unallocated disk space. This, of
course, will mean that your HDD will then contain three partitions
totaling the 149 GB.

6. If you can live with that - fine. If not, you would need to use a
third-party program such as Partition Magic or some other disk
partitioning program that has been recommended to you to manipulate
the sizes of the individual partitions as you see fit.
Anna

Based on what has been said so far, you either:

-- Did not purchase any licenses for the software you have, or
-- If you did, the purchaser is liable to provide you with the CDs,
licenses and key codes necessary to reinstall each and every one of
them.

If I were you I would take the computer back to where you purchased it,
get your money back, OR get the licences, CDs and restoration
instructions that are required to be provided with every PC sold.
If you paid for the software and the seller cannot provide you with
those things, then he owes you money for what he said he sold you but
failed to provide. This is not a decision a seller can make: they have
to provide such things, OR sell the computer without any software he
can't give you those items for.

I have a feeling you may have bought a machine full of pirated software.
Were you able to Activate and Update windows successfully? It's not
proof of piracy or not either way, but it could render your machine
useless the way it is when the next OS verification cycle comes around.
If you do not have the license for your OS, go out and purchase a copy
and start from scratch as I said earlier in these posts.
Did you notice the article in the media about MS removing operability
from every PC in China that went in for a windows update? I saw it
first on zdnet.com if you want to look for it. Of course, they then
turned around and sold them the real thing for $30US; I doubt they'll be
that kind to us here.

Twayne


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