Guest Blink_182_fan Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 I bought a computer recently and it said there was a 120GB hardrive but when i click the c drive it says its capacity is 107GB and i don't understand were the other 13GB has gone ill get a screen shot for you's in a minute and i dont know if i will have to take the computer back(oops i made a typo in title its missing 13GB) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy-2004 Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 ur title says 17GB :D and yur post says 13o rite never mind u edited ur post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Blink_182_fan Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 Here is the screenshot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 Blink, first off disc manufacturers quote their disc sizes based on 1000 mb to a gb, but in reality there are 1024 mb to a gb, so you will always loose some size in windows compared to a manufacturers quote.However, that still means you have about 10 gb "missing". I suspect that it is simply a case of the drive not having had it's full capacity formatted for use as a main drive. If this machine was set up by the supplier, then there is a very good possibility that you will have a "hidden" partition on which some sort of recovery files are located.The best way of checking, is to use some form of partition managing software (such as Powerquests Partition Magic) and see exactly what you have on your Hard Drive.Regards. Mr. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 It's OK, my 120 GB is 111 GB, it's that windows counts 1KB as 1,024 bytes but HD manufacturers coun a KB as 1,000 bytes. It adds up to quite a bit :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 It's OK, my 120 GB is 111 GB, it's that windows counts 1KB as 1,024 bytes but HD manufacturers coun a KB as 1,000 bytes. It adds up to quite a bit :rolleyes:You should still be able to get about 117 Gb from a 120 Gb disc though.Mr. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 I worked it out that 120 GB = 114 GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Blink_182_fan Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 so now im missing 7gb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 You can edit the title as well, BTW. :D Does this computer have a recovery disc, or is there a hidden partition with a backup of the operating system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Blink_182_fan Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 ill try and get a partictian program and check it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy-2004 Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 OK this is a teroy that I'm not sure will be a good idea....if u put in your windows XP CD and go to install then it will ask you what partition u want to put it on....therefore u just look and see if there is more than one partition?failing that i have "partition commander" which i could bring over for u? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 I really wouldn't bother messing with it.... what is 7gig when you have another 113 to play with???It will be a hidden partition with the recovery files on if all you have is a recovery disk!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy-2004 Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 just thought of somthing....when blink was going into safe mode i noticed to option under the pick your operating there were 2windows XP HomeandWindows recovery...or something like that....Is it a possibility that this is where the gigs are being lost...on a separate partition with some sort of Windows recovery thing on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 Andy read my post above yours!!!! And Mr M's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy-2004 Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 yes i know it doesn't exactly MATTER but it would be informative and possible interesting to solve the problem...so i was just contributing my idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Blink_182_fan Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 calm down everyone i would just like to know were taht 7gb is gone thats it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rebel=UK= Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 Try this turn a 200gb Harddrive into a 510 Try this @ your own RISKREADER WILEY SILER has sent us a method which he said was discovered by Scott Komblue and documented by himself which they claim can recover unused areas of the hard drive in the form of hidden partitions.We haven't tried this here at the INQUIRER, and would caution readers that messing with your hard drive is done at your own peril and very likely breaches your warranty. Here is what Wiley and Scott did. µRequired itemsGhost 2003 Build 2003.775 (Be sure not to allow patching of this software) 2 X Hard Drives (OS must be installed on both.) For sake of clarity we will call the drive we are trying to expand (T) in this document (means Target for partition recover). The drive you use every day, I assume you have one that you want to keep as mater with your current OS and data, will be the last dive we install in this process and will be called (X) as it is your original drive.1. Install the HDD you wish to recover the hidden partitions (hard drive T) on as the master drive in your system with a second drive as a slave (you can use Hard Drive X if you want to). Any drive will do as a slave since we will not be writing data to it. However, Ghost must see a second drive in order to complete the following steps. Also, be sure hard drive T has an OS installed on it You must ensure that the file system type is the same on both drive (NTFS to NTFS or FAT32 to FAT32, etc)2. Install Ghost 2003 build 2003.775 to hard drive T with standard settings. Reboot if required.3. Open Ghost and select Ghost Basic. Select Backup from the shown list of options. Select C:\ (this is the drive we want to free partition on on hard drive T) as our source for the backup. Select our second drive as the target. (no data will be written so worry not). Use any name when requested as it will not matter. Press OK, Continue, or Next until you are asked to reboot.Critical step4. Once reboot begins, you must shutdown the PC prior to the loading of DOS or any drivers. The best method is to power down the PC manually the moment you see the BIOS load and your HDDs show as detected.5. Now that you have shutdown prior to allowing Ghost to do its backup, you must remove the HDD we are attempting to expand (hard drive T which we had installed as master) and replace it with a drive that has an OS installed on it. (This is where having hard drive X is useful. You can use your old hard drive to complete the process.) Place hard drive T as a secondary drive in the system. Hard drive X should now be the master and you should be able to boot into the OS on it. The best method for this assuming you need to keep data from and old drive is:Once you boot into the OS, you will see that the second drive in the system is the one we are attempting to expand (hard drive T). Go to Computer Management -> Disk ManagementYou should see an 8 meg partition labeled VPSGHBOOT or similar on the slave HDD (hard drive T) along with a large section of unallocated space that did not show before. DO NOT DELETE VPSGHBOOT yet.6. Select the unallocated space on our drive T and create a new primary or extended partition. Select the file system type you prefer and format with quick format (if available). Once formatting completes, you can delete the VPSGHBOOT partition from the drive.7. Here is what you should now see on your T drive.a. Original partition from when the drive still had hidden partitionsb. New partition of space we just recovered.c. 8 meg unallocated partitions.8. Do you want to place drive T back in a PC and run it as the primary HDD? Go to Disk Management and set the original partition on T (not the new one we just formatted) to and Active Partition. It should be bootable again if no data corruption has occurred.CautionDo not try to delete both partitions on the drive so you can create one large partition. This will not work. You have to leave the two partitions separate in order to use them. Windows disk management will have erroneous data in that it will say drive size = manus stated drive size and then available size will equal ALL the available space with recovered partitions included.This process can cause a loss of data on the drive that is having its partitions recovered so it is best to make sure the HDD you use is not your current working HDD that has important data. If you do this on your everyday drive and not a new drive with just junk on it, you do so at your own risk. It has worked completely fine with no loss before and it has also lost the data on the drive before. Since the idea is to yield a huge storage drive, it should not matter.Interesting results to date:Western Digital 200GB SATAYield after recovery: 510GB of spaceIBM Deskstar 80GB EIDEYield after recovery: 150GB of spaceMaxtor 40GB EIDEYield after recovery: 80GBSeagate 20GB EIDEYield after recovery: 30GBUnknown laptop 80GB HDDYield: 120GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Blink_182_fan Posted April 8, 2004 Report Share Posted April 8, 2004 i phoned up pc world ages ago but forgot to tell you's but the reason was because it was a displaymodel they sometimes had to reformat due to problems. Must have had to remformat alot though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted April 8, 2004 Report Share Posted April 8, 2004 i phoned up pc world ages ago but forgot to tell you's but the reason was because it was a displaymodel they sometimes had to reformat due to problems. Must have had to remformat alot thoughThat is a load of baloney........ utter rubbish, phone them again and ask for someone who knows what they are talking about!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Blink_182_fan Posted April 10, 2004 Report Share Posted April 10, 2004 Apparently he was the technician :o :huh: :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted April 10, 2004 Report Share Posted April 10, 2004 windows XP HomeandWindows recovery...or something like that....Is it a possibility that this is where the gigs are being lost...on a separate partition with some sort of Windows recovery thing on it?I think that may well be where your missing 7gb isHave you had a look with partition manager ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Blink_182_fan Posted April 10, 2004 Report Share Posted April 10, 2004 nope is this on the xp disk? But i had torefoemat every thing because Pc world forgot to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted April 10, 2004 Report Share Posted April 10, 2004 It will be on your hard disk, when booting into safe mode do you still get the 2 options to boot into ? XP home and Windows recovery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Blink_182_fan Posted April 10, 2004 Report Share Posted April 10, 2004 no there is boot in to windows normallyboot in to safe mode with internetboot into safe mode with comand proprmt and there is porbably more that is just off the top of my head Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Blink_182_fan Posted April 18, 2004 Report Share Posted April 18, 2004 i was runing aidea 32 and found this could this be were its gone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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