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On my ThinkPad 770X the hard drive is supposed to be 8.1G (it says that on it, when I pull it out and in spec.), but the Windows only see 5.1G. What might be the problem? Thank you!
A mistake might have been made partitioning. Go to start/run and type fdisk /status to see the partitioning.
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Major vendors use a hidden partition to store the files for a restore and troubleshoot. Also when it suits them, drive manufacturers fudge the drive size. That issue has been covered here before but to sum it up 1Kb = 1024 drive manufacturers sometimes divide by 1000, using the metric system. comes out in their favor. Formatting also takes up space.
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I just added up the total capacity of the 4 partitions of my 60GB maxtor drive. It equally 57.08GB. The last time I found a hidden partition on a HP computer, the hidden drive was over 900MB and the size showing in windows 95 was 2GB. The guy bought a computer advertised as having a 2GB. HD. So I think that it is possible to lose that much. The difference in the stated size of my drive and the actual size after partitioning and formatting is 6% less. That alone would account for about .5GB on that 8GB drive. The rest could be a hidden drive. One other possiblity is that Alex is mistakenly seeing the remaining space on the drive and thinking it's the total size. Alex, run fdisk and use the option to see other drives and see whats there. Be careful not to change anything.
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This is a common thing among IBM laptops (can be seen with Compaqs and some HP's). There are a few reasons you have hidden partitions. The most common configuration is as a recovery program and Windows installation files compressed (some utilities too). IBM Thinkpads have been known to be configured this way (and sometimes do not even ship with the recovery CD). Usually these partitions are about 1-2GB but no more. Actually, if you don't have a CD-ROM drive, this can be helpful. Often times in the Thinkpad the BIOS restricts the overwriting of the hidden partition.
Paritioning and formating will not take up over 10% of your drive. I am not aware of any filesystems that require this loss (even with the journal).
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Ok, fdisk/status shows this:
Line 1 - Disk-1, Drv-(nothing), Mbytes-4880, Free-(nothing), Usage-100%
Line 2 - Disk-(nothing), Drv-C:, Mbytes-4880, Free-(nothing), Usage-(nothing)
What gives? Thanks, all!
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Those results make no sense. I suggest you reinstall the OS and do a complete format if you want that extra space.
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Will DOS prompt C:/format do it or do I need to re-partition? Then, what's the best way to do so? Thanks!
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Backup all the data you want to keep. You are going to completely repartition the system and do a complete installation.
Get a book disk for Windows 98 DOS (find one online here or use the one that came with your computer). Take the disk, put it in the drive, and restart your computer. Put a CD-ROM in the drive, and try to open the CD by typing "D:" and then "dir /w". If your CD-ROM drive letter is something else (maybe M: or H:) use that instead of D. Just make sure you can read from the CD-ROM drive.
Once you know you can get to your CD-ROM drive from your bootdisk, reboot the computer with the bootdisk in the drive. Type "format c:". When that is done, go to your CD-ROM drive with your Windows disk in the drive, and type "D:/setup.exe". This should install Windows.
A quick look on Google will tell you how to do anything else.
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I did just that already. Formatted C:, then booted to CD and installed Win98. After formatting C: it still does not show up as a 8.1Gb, only as 5.1Gb... So, if I do this again, won't I get the same results... Something else seems wrond... Ahhh..! :)
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I have a similar problem. I'll start from the top..
I'm running Win98 on a PII. My HD is supposedly 4.1 gigs. At one point I had a gig free. But everytime I tried to d/l something or add anything more, I would get "Your Hard Disk is Full". I couldn't figure out what was wrong, so I ran Scandisk. After Scandisk fixed some errors, it then read that it WAS actually full, with only a couple mbs free.
..But I could swear that I didn't have that much space taken up to begin with. Naturally I erased some stuff to free up space.
Currently When I go into My Computer and click on "c:\" It says I am using 3.39 Gs, and have 632 mb free. But when I go into MSDos Prompt and type "dir /s" from c:\, I get a total of 2,145,678,161 bytes with 632 mb free. That only adds up to about 3 gigs?
Where is my other gig? I used "fdisk /status" and got these results:
Disk Drv Mbytes Free Usage
1 4118 100%
C: 4118That means I have 4 right? If so, what is taking up the extra gig? I can't find it.
This is really bugging me.. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Sorry, I guess the spaces don't work. Lemme try it this way.
Fdisk /status Results
Disk..Drv..Mbytes..Free..Usage
..1.........4118..........100%
.......C:...4188..............
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