• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

New Hard Drive Capacity

T

trueblue

Member
Built my 1st computer yesterday. Want to check if what happened to harddrive is correct:

I have 60gb barracuda IV. During partician via Windows Home XP (Single partician and selected NTFS) I seem to lose a small amont harddrive space into thin air via the XP partician. However I did not record the amout I seemed to lose.

My C drive properties currently shows the drive as 60,011,610,112 bytes particianed
also states the capaicty as 55.8GB NTFS (Used 2.97 GB, Unused 52.9GB).

Does all the sums look correct I do understand about the 1024 byte thing with harddrive manufactures just want to make sure that I lost some space during particianing or if it all looks correct??
 
Oh, and yes, NTFS does usesome small amount of space (approx. 50Mb), though i'm not sure why (i think it's file indexing)
 
Indexing doesn't reserve space, and doesn't take up any space unless it's enabled, which isn't an NTFS-specific feature, just WindowsNT/2k/XP. Even if space were reserved in the file system, it would still be reported as part of the drive, just "used" space.

NT/2k/XP however do reserve 8MB at the beginning of the drive that is not included in the partition you create, in case it's ever converted to a dynamic disk (something I only learned a few days ago).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top