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I have a laptop with a hard drive of 302gb but only visible is 230 gb

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by telemark, 2010/05/01.

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    hard disk is divided into two partitions C and D. C partition has 30GB and D partition has 194GB a total of 224GB. But my hard disk has 320GB and I wondering where is other 100GB. Where is the problem? And how can I fix it?
     
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    Welcome to WindowsBBS :)

    Once formatted NTFS a 320 Gb drive has a capacity of 298 Gb - the difference represents the space taken up by the file system.

    You are seeing 224 Gb - the 'missing' space equates to 74 Gb.

    How are you determining the capacity of each drive?

    Look in Disk Management - Start > Run > type in diskmgmt.msc > Enter

    The available capacity of the whole drive will be shown under Disk 0 in the LH column, that of individual partitions in the main window.

    How many partitions do you see? My guess is that you have a hidden Recovery Partition and maybe a much smaller diagnostic partition, also hidden, neither of which will show in Windows Explorer.
     
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    it has 298GB. I see two partition and one unallocated.
     
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    What is the size of the unallocated space? Is this at the end of the drive?

    You can make a further partition in the unallocated space by right clicking on it and selecting Create Partition.
     
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    The size is 74GB. Yes is at the end of the drive. Will I lose data on any partition if I create a new partition.
     
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    Creating a new partition in the Unallocated Space will not affect the other partitions.
     
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    thank you
     
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    You're welcome :)

    Please mark this thread as 'Resolved', see .....
     
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