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Article #266Re: What percentage must be alloted to primary partition.
From: Grinder
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 17:41
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 17:41
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Frank McCoy wrote:
>> 2. When partitioned, some of the space is lost defining the partition.
>> Also, far more space is lost in various formats that don't allow
>> partitioning the full space available; so there's some unpartitioned
>> space left over in almost every drive these days. The bigger the drive,
>> the more likely. In my 160-gig drive (for example), even when I tell
>> Windows to partition the entire drive as one huge volume, 8 gig is left
>> over. ;-{
GT wrote:
> Why did you leave 8GB behind? Following installation of my new system drive,
> I partitioned my Samsung Spinpoint 160GB 2 days ago, using windows and I am
> using the full 160GB, there's is no 8GB space left! That's 160 Giga Bytes as
> in 10^9. No approximations, no rounding, a pure 160GB. If you want me to
> approximate it using some bizarre inaccurate power of 2, then its 149.05GB,
> but we are still talking about 160,000,000,000 in 1 partition.
I've noticed that when partitioning a drive using the Windows XP/2000
installer, a small portion is always left unallocated. It's 8 megabytes
though, not 8 gigabytes.
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