| From: | Robert Cranley |
| Date: | 3 May 2001 at 04:26:26 |
| Subject: | Re: 40GB HD missing 25% ????? |
Hi dave@blitz-2000.co.uk,
On 02-May-01, you wrote:
> If you haven't partitioned it, and have no filesystem on it, you will
> not lose anything. And I'm guessing that size you quote is the one in
> the first display of HDToolbox, in which case it's calculating the
> size of the drive and takes no FS stuff into account.
> You lose a fair chunk with the conversion. Do the maths:
> (41.1 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000) / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 38.277....
Yeah, I'd be happy with that... My 8.4GB drive ends up with 7.9 GB of
formatted space, and that's ok... But a helluva lot less than 1 quarter...
> I have no idea where the other 7Gb disappeared, unless you misread
> 38.1 as 31.8??
Heh.. Noope, I wish :) Yeah, I got the geometry details here from the Drive
docs, and HDToolbox DID read them wrong, but I entered the correct details
and I ended up with the same size :( At the mo I have FFS installed on 4
partitions on it (just the default), but HDToolbox reports it as 31.8GB
unformatted... Doh! I don't wanna try messing with the details until I get
41.1GB size, cos this'll probably end up in the drive being unstable...
Regards,
Rob
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