Can Partition Magic give more space back to me?

[jndoggett]

After using Window XP Pro to partition 80GB HD, I have around 75GB free space to use which means I lost around 5 GB. If I use Partition Magic, Can I get more free space to use? 5GB is a lot of space to waste on keeping HD partition info.

 

[hominid skull]

I think its the way the manufacturers represent gigbytes.

they say the drive is 80GB, or 80,000,000,000 bytes( they just miss of the extra 24 bytes off of every megabyte)

in real gigabytes it's 80,000,000,000/1024/1024/1024 = 74.5 GB (real gigabytes)

//edit. You haven't lost any space and the drive is corretly formatted.

 

[Mavrick007]

The maximum you should have is around 76.3Gigs out of an 80gig drive cause of the conversion that manufacturers use for a Megabyte.
There is no way to get more cause that's the actual value. They use 80gigs = 80gigs x 1000Megs/gig x 1000K/meg, but in actuality it's 1024Megs/gig x 1024k/meg so that works out to 76.3gigs (76.3 x 1024 x 1024 = 80,000,000).

 

[hominid skull]

Originally posted by: Mavrick007
The maximum you should have is around 76.3Gigs out of an 80gig drive cause of the conversion that manufacturers use for a Megabyte.
There is no way to get more cause that's the actual value. They use 80gigs = 80gigs x 1000Megs/gig x 1000K/meg, but in actuality it's 1024Megs/gig x 1024k/meg so that works out to 76.3gigs (76.3 x 1024 x 1024 = 80,000,000).

you forgot the bytes in 1K, that 1024bytes in 1K, x 1024K in 1 megabyte, x 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte..

 

[jndoggett]

Thanks, Everyone. Now I can sleep well tonight.