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    where did my partition disapear too?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by sheep, Sep 28, 2007.

  1. sheep

    sheep Notebook Guru

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    Hey I just reformatted my dell inspiron 1420 and i had a 160 gb harddrive, i reformated to have a 2 gb for the media direct partition and then 145 gb for the primary partition, but there is supposed to be another 10 or so that is missing and isnt found in any of the hard drives in my computer.

    Before the format I had a partition called backup that stored this file called factory.wim. Does anyone know how i can access this space, or where it went to, and how to restore it?
     
    sheep, Sep 28, 2007
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    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    You're pretty much there. A 160 GB HDD is actually 149 GB, and you're using 147 of them. If you do some rounding, adding, and accounting for a bit of "in-between" space, you've got everything.
     
    Lithus, Sep 28, 2007
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  3. bmnotpls

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    147 effective GB seems right to me... right?
     
    bmnotpls, Sep 28, 2007
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    *feels sheepish* ok thanks, i feel better now.
     
    sheep, Sep 28, 2007
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    160 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 / ( 1024 * 1024 * 1024) = 149 GB approximately ;)
     
    TuxDude, Sep 28, 2007
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