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Re: partitions and total hard drive size shown

 
 
Bodhione
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      06-14-2007
Hey Drew,

Im not A+ cert or rocket scientist, only aspiring, but the binary and
decimal size doesnt make sense to me as you would be seeing more of a
drive if windows were reporting info greater than designated capacity.
You are seeing a loss and I have no answer for you other than the
reserved partition being used in a Dell and your output doesnt show
that.

Robert

Drew wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> I have a Dell system with Windows XP, Service Pack 2 and one physical
> SATA hard drive of size advertised as 250 gigs.
>
> The system is set up with C as the OS partition, D as a data
> partition, and E as a programs partition.
>
> When I look under Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer
> Management and Disk Management and right click on Disk 0 (the only
> hard drive in system) and do properties and select volumes, the screen
> tells me that:
>
> Disk 0 is a Basic disk with a capacity of 238418 MB and with
> unallocated space of 0 MB and reserved space of 0 MB.
>
> The volumes are shown as:
>
> Volume Capacity
> ---------------------------------------
> Data (D 112000 MB
> OS (C 26004 MB
> PROGRAMS (E 100414 MB
>
>
> Totaling those three up matches the 238418 MB shown in capacity above,
> but doesn't match the 250 gig system advertised size.
>
> However, unallocated and reserved space are both shown as 0 as well.
>
> Although its a small percentage of the drive, I can't account for
> 11,582 megs of the disk space. Should the capacity not be shown as
> 250000 MB?
>
> I know that the setup process of Windows reserves a small amount of
> space if you ever want to convert from a basic to a dynamic disk but I
> was thinking that this was never more than 10 megs or so plus the
> above info also indicates 0 MB for reserved space.
>
> I'm sure I'm missing something obvious! Can someone assist?
>
> Much appreciated!
>
> Drew


 
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