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Solve : 80 gig HD to 55 gig? |
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Answer» Last year, I had a friend reformat my computer and he partitioned my HARD drive in two; C: was devoted to system and Windows files and D: was used for storage and such. Before the reformat, my hard drive had a capacity of 80 gigs, however, afterwards the partition, Windows only showed a total of 55 gigs available between the two partitions. I ignored the problem for a very LONG time, until I recently reformatted my computer again. This time through, I erased the partition my friend had made and allowed C: to contain all of the everything- both system files and everything else. I figured that this would rectify the initial mistake my friend might have made, but when I checked the properties of C: in My Computer, it shows the HD as still having a capacity of 55 gigs. ... Available is space remaining, not total space. Out of the 80GB, you had 55GB available (remaining, empty, etc). 25GB was being used. You may have erased the D-partition, but it is not part of the C-partition until you join them together. If C now has a total capacity of 55GB, you must format the remainder which will then be the D- partition of 25GB. Quote Last year, I had a friend reformat my computer and he partitioned my hard drive in two. Hello Laura, You say "erased" when you should have 'deleted' both partitions and made one large one, or sized the partitions to suit your needs. An 80 GB drive gives 74.51 GB of Binary space which is 76293 MB An 8 GB C: drive Primary partition would be 8192 MB and a 10 GB drive would be 10240 MB. After you make the Primary drive you do all your installing from the XP CD and then make an Extended partition using XP's Disk Management. You then make a Logical (or 3) drives within the Extended partition and format them one at a time. [Primary]{[Logical 1][Logical 2][Logical 3]} Where { ---------------------------- } ... is the extent of the Extended drive partition.Try to forrmat your pc using linux INSTALATION cd . |
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