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vaio hard drive capacity

vaioUser123 — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:39:28 GMT

hi there,

this may be a kinda stupid question but i´ll post it anyway:

i recently bought a vgn-a215m which is supposed to have a 60gb hard disk drive. however, if i look it up in "my computer" it says that c:\ is 27.9 and d:\ is 20.9. that´s 48,8 which isn´t even remotly 60.

can anyone explain this to me? thanks, karim

Re: vaio hard drive capacity

TygerTyger — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:35:43 GMT

It would seem that you have a hidden recovery partition in your D:\ drive. This is basically the same as a recovery CD, only you can just run it from your computer.

Are you sure there are no hidden files or anything on your D:\ drive? That sounds like a ridiculous amount to take out of a hard drive just for recovery.

Re: vaio hard drive capacity

kee-lo_ — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:56:57 GMT

It's the recovery partiton, the other thread said it had 48GB too.

Re: vaio hard drive capacity

shenyap — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:25:26 GMT

Dear all

Anyone know how to clear the partition to use the hdd capacity filled by the recovery utility please?

Thanks
Shen

Re: vaio hard drive capacity

seb21__ — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:05:32 GMT

Hallo

My VAIO PCG-FR315S have 60 GB Harddisk too.

But this is fake.

You have only 60GB when the drive is unformated
------------------------------>(Harddisk is empty).

Formating your Harddisk (like NTFS5 or FAT32) and capacity goes down

Don't forgett the Clustersize : NTFS5 like 4 KB Clustersize
(Harddisk with max. 2TB Volume)
Fat32 like 8KB Clustersize by max. 16GB Harddisk
Higher the Clustersizer and you lost Harddiskcapacity.
(Fat32 with 16KB Clustersize---------> max. 32GB)

(That's not interesting for NTFS5, but larger Haddisk --------------------------------> more Bytes are unused.

Re: vaio hard drive capacity

seb21__ — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:37:00 GMT

I have forgott the MFT (like NTFS5)

The MFT saved all positions of data on your Harddisk .
And the MFT used 12,5 % (standard)from the patition on your Harddisk.

You can't save an 5GB-file on a 5GB Harddisk!

Don't forgett them.

Re: vaio hard drive capacity

TygerTyger — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:03:18 GMT

Good info Seb, but in the case of recovery partitions they are hidden altogether. So your total available hard drive size shows up as less than it should be. For stuff like MFT or general Windows excess, it shows up as space used.

Re: vaio hard drive capacity

seb21__ — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:22:17 GMT

OK

but I don't use 2 partitons from the Recover-DVD
When I recovered my Computer , I formating the harddisk self
with an partitions-tool (from a bootable floppydisk).