Solve : Unable to use or see part of Hard Disk?

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Answer» Have new Laptop. Microsoft Vista. 80GB. But only 68.4GB is viewable and usable? Any reason for this???any solution? please HELP!!!!! TOSHIBA M200-A410. This is normal... A few gigs of the HARD drive are going to be used no matter what, even if nothing is written on it. The first sectors of the drive CONTAIN the master boot record, partition table, etc and take up some of that space. You mentioned vista is one there... that also takes up space on the drive. I just bought a 500 GB external harddrive yesterday and with nothing on it, there was 460 some gigabytes. This is normal and nothing is wrong with your drive.i find it odd that the bigger the hard drive is, the more unusable room you have for example: the 20 Gig i bought for my Xbox = 16 usable The 80 gig afterwards = around 65 usable The 250 Gig afterwards = about 215 considering none of these had anything whatsoever one them, not even operating systems, and they were formatted for Xbox use, it doesn't make sense lol. same principle for my pc hard drives... but they don't count lol...Formatting uses some space. Plus, a drive sold as 80Gb will not be 80Gb in binary, where 1024b = 1Kb and so on, it will be 1000b = 1Kb. Therefore the quoted capacity is less than the capacity seen by an operating system as the measurements of space are different. Hope this helps. Actual Hard Drive Sizes: Thanx to Western Digital... Quote from: _peace_ on July 12, 2007, 08:16:42 AM Have new Laptop. Microsoft Vista. 80GB. But only 68.4GB is viewable and usable? Any reason for this???any solution? please HELP!!!!! Toshiba M200-A410. In your case peace because it's a laptop there is probably a hidden partition of about 3 to 7G which contains the RESTORE files for re-installing everything back to Day One. Check your documentation on how to use this.That's what I was trying to explain, that size chart. Thanks. And the restore partition is a good point too, I have a 2.47Gb partition on mine for this purpose. Confused me as well when I first got it. You can see the size of it LIKE this - right click My Computer - Manage - Disk Management. There you can see the size, format and health of all disks and partitions connected to your computer. Be careful and do not do anything in this program unless you know exactly what you're doing, or you can cause major problems. Also, don't format the hidden partition to get your space back or you'll be stuck.

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Have new Laptop. Microsoft Vista. 80GB. But only 68.4GB is viewable and usable? Any reason for this???any solution? please HELP!!!!! TOSHIBA M200-A410.
This is normal... A few gigs of the HARD drive are going to be used no matter what, even if nothing is written on it. The first sectors of the drive CONTAIN the master boot record, partition table, etc and take up some of that space. You mentioned vista is one there... that also takes up space on the drive.

I just bought a 500 GB external harddrive yesterday and with nothing on it, there was 460 some gigabytes. This is normal and nothing is wrong with your drive.i find it odd that the bigger the hard drive is, the more unusable room you have

for example: the 20 Gig i bought for my Xbox = 16 usable
The 80 gig afterwards = around 65 usable
The 250 Gig afterwards = about 215
considering none of these had anything whatsoever one them, not even operating systems, and they were formatted for Xbox use, it doesn't make sense lol.

same principle for my pc hard drives... but they don't count lol...Formatting uses some space.
Plus, a drive sold as 80Gb will not be 80Gb in binary, where 1024b = 1Kb and so on, it will be 1000b = 1Kb.
Therefore the quoted capacity is less than the capacity seen by an operating system as the measurements of space are different.
Hope this helps. Actual Hard Drive Sizes:

Thanx to Western Digital... Quote from: _peace_ on July 12, 2007, 08:16:42 AM

Have new Laptop. Microsoft Vista. 80GB. But only 68.4GB is viewable and usable? Any reason for this???any solution? please HELP!!!!! Toshiba M200-A410.

In your case peace because it's a laptop there is probably a hidden partition of about 3 to 7G which contains the RESTORE files for re-installing everything back to Day One.

Check your documentation on how to use this.That's what I was trying to explain, that size chart. Thanks.
And the restore partition is a good point too, I have a 2.47Gb partition on mine for this purpose.
Confused me as well when I first got it.
You can see the size of it LIKE this - right click My Computer - Manage - Disk Management.
There you can see the size, format and health of all disks and partitions connected to your computer.
Be careful and do not do anything in this program unless you know exactly what you're doing, or you can cause major problems.
Also, don't format the hidden partition to get your space back or you'll be stuck.

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