ok i have a 160GB harddrive and in my computer it only shows 152. Where are the 8 GB's gone?

second, in partition magic it showed 8MB unallocated so i created that, it became Local Disk(F:), i want to make it 30GB's after i get my 8 GBs back

how do i do this?

same happened with my hdd, i had ~8mb too. in partition magic i just formatted that 8mb with ntfs and the same cluster size as my c: drive, then i just combined the 2 parts and it worked

@rip but 8 gigs loss by formatting with NTFS it wudn't be that much rite?

okk so what do i have to do here?

when you format HD ome data is used for the clusters and actually 8 gig is not that much out of 160. Every HD will lose some space due to being formatted. The bigger the HD the more space will be used for format.
Not to worry this is normal.

@dirt space will loss depend upon the format type like fat32/ntfs and also on cluster size used during partitioning

yes depending on the format used different % of HD space is used I dont know the exact amounts But if you use linux type of OS the loss is greater

i dont know what u mean? are u saying that 8 gig isnt much. if u want to get it back then do what i told u to, have u even tried yet?

but as a warning, that 8gigs is probably set as ur active drive so if u change it then u wont be able to boot into windows and u will have to reinstall it, thats what happened to me and i tried all night to try to fix it to make it boot right.

hello,

don't forget this, HDD manufacters use 1000 bts for 1Mbts and 1000 Mbts for 1Gbts(it better for Merchandising ).

in fact, 1Mbts is 1024 bts and not 1000.

so, it exists a difference which is 7% . calculate yourself difference from bts to Gbts. you shall be horrified but it is the reality.

Have goods dreams.

I'm very sorry for you but it's life.

ok if i cant get my 8 gigs back how do i make the small partition i made thats( 7.84 MB) bigger to say 30 gigs?

use a partition manager like 'partition magic' for example in order to reduce your partition (C:) and increase avaible space.

in these posts, it should be have confusion between 8Mo and 8 Go.

Your 8Go disappeared is normal (1000 against 1024).

Your 8Mo avaible partition is due to windows partition manager and can be modified but with another partition manager.

ok so what do i click on in partition magic?

if someone could give me some instructions because im scared of doing things with my HD as i have bought over 3 HD's from doing things to them

i have a C: thats 152GB and a new F: drive that i made with unallocated space thats only 7.84MB

i want to make the F; bigger, to say about 30GB

where is F: ? is it before C: or after

if its before then u need to right click on c: and click resize, then make it 30gigs, then merge it with F, but doing this will prolly require you to reinstall windows

if it is after then right click on c:, then resize, and make it like 140gigs then merge the left over with F:

but if i merge partitions wont it just make a folder in the (letter:\) (example merge F: with C: and it will make a folder called Local Disk(F:) in the C: partition)

i dont want that..

so ur saying if i resize the 152GB to 140 it will become 140GB or 30GB

im kinda confused, and im just making sure of what i do because i dont want to end up screwing something up

crap ur right about the merge, it does do that and its stupid

the only way to get it not to do that is to reformat the parts ur using, which is all of them

but if u resize the 152 to 140 then ur windows will be on the 140 and u will have 12gigs left over, but that 12 gigs will be located after the 140gigs

if u resize ur 152 to 12gigs, then ur windows will be on the 12 and u will have 152 gigs left over which is located after the 12 gig part

like i asked before, where is the f: located in terms of where c: is, on the left or on the right

the C is on left the F is on right

vry good then

1.resize the c: drive to 130gigs
2.delete the 22gig part
3.delete the 8gig part
4.create a new part that is 30gigs with the ntfs format

This topic is kind of funny. I have 160gb of hard disk and it comes out to 152gb as well. This is perfectly normal. Like it's already been said before it's because of the 1000 to 1024 thing. There is no way to get that space back because it isn't there. That's like converting 2.34 cm to 1 inch and then asking where your 1.34 inches went to?!? LOL

were not talking about that, he has a part that he can still use but was kinda hidden from him

@ripken if i delete the 22gb partition and the 8 MB(not GB) partition will i still be able to create a 30 GB partition?

u should be able to, u might have to mess around with it a little but u can do it

by the way i pmed u

ok i t worked thanks ripken

i was just wondering for the future

if i wanted to make one drive again(just a C: , thats 152GB) how would i do it?

well it wouldt be 152gigs, it would be 160

they only way to do it with no folders is to make the boot cd's for partition magic, then run it off of the floppys it will make, then delete everything and then it will all be unparted so u just need to format it

so it all worked? no 8 gigs left over?

ya i have a C: drive with 120GB and a D: drive with 30GB

What happened to the other 2GB?

heh mouvda is this space reserved for some specific purpose?if yes for what?btw can u edit that thing with partition magic?