I have a 160 GB Western Digital HD that I bought a while back. I just installed Partition Magic 8.0 and made two separate partitions, C: and E:. I set aside most of the space for the E: as it is my media drive. Looking at the drive properties, it says the following: Size MB: 132, 065.6 | Used MB: 131, 494.6 | Unused MB 571.0 | Status: None | Pri/Log: Logical. This partition lies within the Extended portion. My question is, why does it say that only 571.0 is unused when I've only used a fraction of that amount? Where did all my other space go??
2007-01-15 05:36:22 · 4 answers · asked by xstuartbarrettx 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
partition magic program could have messed up making the partitions and/or you used the space and/or somehow a bunch of space got alloated to unpartitioned space
2007-01-15 05:40:42 · answer #1 · answered by willy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to have this exact problem and this is what's going on. Windows XP can only recognize 128gb of data without you editing it with some other program. It's still there, but it can't be used until you extend the partition with another program. My suggestion is to get an ubuntu linux live cd, boot from that, run the partition editor and extend E: to however big you want it. Or you could get standalone Gparted, that's what ubuntu has on it.
2007-01-15 05:43:32 · answer #2 · answered by tomauty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd go ahead and combine all your partitions, with Partition magic, and then try breaking out the majority of the free space to a new partition, again.
2007-01-15 05:56:10 · answer #3 · answered by Krista 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think its reffering to the amount of unpartitioned space on the drive ... that is totally unused ... not free space ...
2007-01-15 05:42:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋