Hard disk partitions

BennyC

BennyC

BennyC

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Hi guys,

I was creating another partition on my laptop just now about 6.5 gb in size for a few films. I also have the standard C drive(80gb in total) and a 16 gb partition with my music in.

Using the partitioning tool i noticed theres another 9 gb partition. It doesnt have an assigned drive letter and is 100% free space usage wise. :confused:

Is this the recovery partition?

This laptop has a 120gb drive, in total all partitions(including the empty 9gb one) total 111.79 gb. So I assumed the 8 gb missing is the recovery partition?

Any help is greatly appreicated!

Benny C
 
Hard disks are sold with 1000 bytes = 1 kilobyte. In reality 2^10 bytes, 1024 bytes, is a kilobyte.

120000000000 bytes is equal to 111.758709 gibibytes. You're not missing any space at all.
 
ahh right okay. So how comes theres a 9 gb empty partition? if it is the recovery partition shouldnt it have data in it?
 
It does sound like a recovery partition. It might be of a format unreadable to Windows, ext3 perhaps. That would cause windows not to mount it, as you're seeing, and perhaps make it unable to probe it for remaining capacity.

/speculation
 
I think it is a recovery partition. I have one on my Dell laptop, 7GB in size and can't be seen within Windows.
 
You can sometimes see it in windows but not access it via a drive letter, if you take a look using 'drive management'. Usually hidden partitions are of the 12h compaq format, which is generally used to keep an image of the factory installed OS incase your PC goes t1ts up. Alt F10 boots from it on startup, or you can set it to be the active partition using Acronis or other partition tool to boot from it. If you never plan to use it to recover, or as a sneaky place to ghost your own freshly installed Windows, nuke it and use the space. It's pretty much useless if you are happy doing the reinstall yourself, and totally useless if the drive ends up fragged.
 
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