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<joshidm@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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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

So that is 0.2gB short of 149gB. So you have not lost any space, its just 
being reported using the 'other' measuring scale.

When you get into Windows, go to: Start->Settings->Control 
Panel->Administrative Tools->Disk Management and see what it reports for the 
drive in there. What I tend to do when partitioning a drive as a system boot 
drive is to create the system partition first, then get Windows installed 
onto it. Make sure you have at least service pack 1 installed (to get over 
137GB on larger drives), then use the above Disk Management link to create 
the second partition. Windows will allocate the complete remaining drive 
space and not leave any wasted space.