plugging it all in!

**JohnS** · 29-01-2005, 01:46 AM

is it XP ur running and is it pro if so have you checked if the spare drive space shows in the drive section of computer management, its in the administrator section of control panel? if you cant see the administrator icon ensure you have classic view set from the left hand side of the window

**shiato storm** · 29-01-2005, 01:55 AM

yes xp
yes pro
no looked in comp management etc...

just wondering when I went to format the drive it said 13xxxxx something... and not 16xxxxx instead. and now windows still thinks its 130 total...

oh my god...just looked in the management section! 21gb lurking there 'unallocated'! the cheeky buggers! now what do I do to get that back? esp. when it didn't show up on the format screen?!

edit: how do I stick it onto the end of my big 120gb bit?

I have 10gb for OS, the rest for files/folders etc, and a spare hdd for pagefile...

**JohnS** · 29-01-2005, 01:56 AM

glad to see you found it

fancy leaving 20gb lying about

just right click it and format

**shiato storm** · 29-01-2005, 01:58 AM

oops edited my post as you replied... about attaching that remaining 20gb to rest of drive I have..

**JohnS** · 29-01-2005, 02:01 AM

if you have nothing on the big drive yet then right click the 120 ang delete the partition do the same on the other and you should get 1 solid lump of unpartitioned space right click format bag

**shiato storm** · 29-01-2005, 02:05 AM

ah ha...easy as pi...

**shiato storm** · 29-01-2005, 02:09 AM

ah nuts... 9.77 (for some reason its given 9.77 not 10 as I asked, never mind) along with 139.28 is 149.05 not 160...still 10 short. whats happened to that 10gb then??!!
oh and do I want the partition to be primary or extended partition?

**shiato storm** · 29-01-2005, 02:15 AM

doh. i'm am muppet...! sorted

cheers monkey

now, need to sort out the PSU!

**shiato storm** · 29-01-2005, 03:40 AM

well, i flexed up a bit of UT (

!!) and can still hear the PSU

big fat hairy *rse.

**Butcher** · 29-01-2005, 04:49 AM

A 160GB HDD is actually 160,000,000,000 bytes, which is 149.01GB, hence the difference you saw.

**weebroonieuk** · 29-01-2005, 08:29 AM

well done butcher been reading this thread there about to mention the way drive makers sell there drives , u will never get what they claim as the bits/ bytes comes into it and screws it all up

my maxtor 300gb shows up as around 250 gb in windows i think i cant remember ( only plug it in when archiveing files to it

**BlueMagician** · 29-01-2005, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by shiato storm

...ah nuts... 9.77 (for some reason its given 9.77 not 10 as I asked, never mind...

IIRC, in agreement with Butcher's post, WinXP's disk management expects partition sizes in relation to physical bytes space on the drive, not formatted capacity.

S.

**iranu** · 29-01-2005, 01:26 PM

Just a quickie regarding the Tagan. The clicking is a known fault, mine had this before it went bang, nothing else was damaged.

On a positive note though, I RMA'd it back to Scan including all cables etc and I received a new PSU within 3 days.

**JohnS** · 29-01-2005, 01:40 PM

Glad your sorted

.

**shiato storm** · 29-01-2005, 03:28 PM

right then I'm going to RMA it straight away. cheers iranu...hoping they'll get it to me asap!! especially considering foul up at the begining when order was delayd...

thankfully the guys at scan are pretty awesome and bend over backwards to help out

**Butcher** · 29-01-2005, 06:10 PM

My Tagan clicks, I don't really notice it as it'svery quiet, I RMAed one because of it but the new one also did it so I assumed it was normal...

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