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On 11 May, 10:05, "GT" <ContactGT_remo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Was patitioning 160gbmaxtordisk throughmaxtorutility. NTFS
> > formating was getting allowed only when dial reached 34gb mark.
>
> > Then same size disk was partitioned with size of primary set at 20gb
> > while installing OS.
>
> > But in the second instance lost something like 10gb disk space.
>
> > So wonder if for NTFS format of primarypartitiona certain percetage
> > of total size must be alloted in order not to lose any space on the
> > disk.
>
> I don't exactly follow what you are saying here. An NTFSpartitioncan be
> any size (max = 2^64 = about 18.5 Million TeraBytes). Perhaps themaxtor
> utility has a false minimum limit. What does it suggest to use for 33GB as
> Fat32 is (falsly by windows) limited to 32GB, so if NTFS isn't allowed until
> you reach 34GB, then 33GB is in "no man's land"!

Untill over 33gb is reached the dial does stays in FAT32 zone only
after that it allows NTFS option.

I am sorry that I could not come back to my queryy earlier.



> The reason you are 'losing' over 10GB is this:
>
> There is a problem with the term GB - it can be interpreted in 2 ways by
> people with different backgrounds/outlooks. Some follow the mathematical
> definition that Giga means 10^9 (1,000,000,000) and others follow the other
> meaning (not sure what the dicipline is called) of Giga which is 2^30
> (1073741824). This second term is sometimes refered to as Gibi (GIga in
> BInary).
>
> The marketing people atmaxtor(and other drives), use the mathematical
> definition to describe their drive capacities. So your 160GB drive holds
> 160,000,000,000 Bytes (mathematically accurate). Windows reports drive sizes
> using the other definition, so to windows your drive holds 160 / 2^30 =
> 149GB.
>
> Strange but true - the only industry or dicipline in the world where 160GB =
> 149GB! But this is probably where you are 'losing' over 10GB of space. The
> answer is that you aren't losing the space, its just windows reporting the
> size wrongly.

On the disk that was partitioned through maxtor utility sizes showing
are 32.8gb vs 116gb