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THunDA
01-12-04, 10:02 PM
Hi all..

Couple days ago I installed a 160gig drive to use for back ups.. I partitioned it using the XP cd.. And I divided it into 4 partitons which are about 32gig's each.. then formatted them using the disk management in windows..now it is showing 21gig's of "Unallocated Space"in disk manager.. What is that ? im not using this drive for any OS.. Just backup stuff and images..can I partition and use that ?

Thanks
Thunda
THunDA
01-12-04, 10:32 PM
nm..sorry I shoulda searched ;)

the reason is cuz I used the XP disk to partition it..and in windows with sp1 it saw the rest.. am I understanding this right?

Thunda
OSUmaxx
01-12-04, 10:50 PM
4 - 32 GB partitions = 128 GB. You should have some space left over AFAIK.
THunDA
01-12-04, 10:54 PM
ya I ended up with another 21gig partition... I partitioned and formatted through windows.. :) total of 149gigs.. dam thats alot of space..lol

Thunda
germanjulian
01-13-04, 09:06 AM
yeah like me 150GB........... wtf it says 160GB!!!!!!!!!

oh well 10GB short is not the end of the world but I do hope these people win that lawsuit so hd manufactures have to tell you the true size of the HD.
ahh and why do i always have 8MB of unallocated space on my hd's after i use disk manger to format them. that is any hard drive!
THunDA
01-13-04, 09:55 AM
Originally posted by germanjulian
yeah like me 150GB........... wtf it says 160GB!!!!!!!!!

oh well 10GB short is not the end of the world but I do hope these people win that lawsuit so hd manufactures have to tell you the true size of the HD.
ahh and why do i always have 8MB of unallocated space on my hd's after i use disk manger to format them. that is any hard drive!

lol.. Yea I mean honestly ill prolly never need the whole 160 anyways.. and was a supprise when I got anyother 21gigs in windows..

Now if I format my main drive .. I just need to connect the 160gig drive after I have SP1 installed so I can see the rest right ?


Thunda


..ps..lol someone is getting their a$$ kicked in your avatar..
Avatar28
01-13-04, 10:26 AM
Problem is they DO tell you. It says that one gigabyte equals 1,000,000,000 (one billion) bytes. Never mind that the computer industry has typically used 2^30 (1,073,741,824) to represent a gigabyte. Technically, though, the storage industry is right. SI has established that one billion even IS one gigabyte and that the binary value is a gibibyte (note the extra b). Stupid in my book. Couldn't just leave good enough alone.