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chiaa
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 Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:21 am Post subject: |
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[quote="Gord"]
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Having one partition or four partitions consumes no more and no less space than what is available normally. |
Of course that is the case. But say you have two different versions of Windows on one HD and you click on the C: on one of them, it would only show the disk size being of that one partition. Am I wrong in this? |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:49 am Post subject: |
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| chiaa wrote: |
| Of course that is the case. But say you have two different versions of Windows on one HD and you click on the C: on one of them, it would only show the disk size being of that one partition. Am I wrong in this? |
Removing the O/S from the question as it doesn't matter, you can have up to four partitions per single drive, or one partition over multiple drives.
Windows under "My Computer" will list drives as configured by the user. A drive can stand alone, as part of a raid, in an extended partition over several drives, or as a virtual folder with no drive letter attached. In this setting, the "Drive Size" is just the size of the partition in play that has been assigned to represent a drive.
Windows under "Manage Drives" will list the physical drives that exists regardless of how they are configured to be represented to the end user. In this setting, the total space available under 2*8^X conversion is in play (in short, a 200GB drive is often represented as being 186GB). |
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