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    pleasant surprise

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by dmacfour, May 20, 2008.

  1. dmacfour

    dmacfour Are you aware...

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    So I have an only computer in the basement that has a HDD in it that is labeled as a 120GB HDD. It was formatted with an 88GB partition and a 20GB partition. Today I went into disk management and to my pleasant surprise, it said I had nearly 90GB of unpartitioned space. I was like WTH. Manufacturing mislabeling?
     
    dmacfour, May 20, 2008
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  2. sesshomaru

    sesshomaru Suspended Disbelief!

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    Or sometimes a MBR error.. Has happened to me once, when I created two extended partitions by mistake.. Screwed up my MBR, and showed my 40 GB HDD having an unallocated space of 300 GB...
     
    sesshomaru, May 20, 2008
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    Yeah it happened to me too actually..you be careful with this unpartitioned space..
     
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    I partitioned the space and copied a file over, it seems to work fine. Is there any way to tell whether it's a corrupt MBR or not?
     
    dmacfour, May 21, 2008
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