I am just interested, but when you partition a hard drive it seems to leave about 12 gig on the drive. Is this regestry information or what?.
I am just wondering, because if I had a virus etc & decided to totally wipe the drive, could the virus sit in that small bit of the hard drive?
Partitioning a hard drive
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Rotten Ralph
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Sure its not just the difference between how manufacturers count 1Gb compared to the actual way?
I.e.
Manufacturers count 1000Mb = 1 Gb, whereas Windows (correctly - SCARY huh?) uses 1024Mb = 1Gb.
Same happened with Mb drives in the old days. The maunfacturers used 1000Kb = 1Mb, whereas the correct conversion was 1024Kb = 1Mb.
Always resulted in the drive showing up in Windows apparently smaller that it's actual capacity.
Result is the bigger the drive, the more space that appears to be missing.
Add to that the space reserved for partitioning information and the drive tables they can appear to be a lot smaller that thier 'advertised' size.
I.e.
Manufacturers count 1000Mb = 1 Gb, whereas Windows (correctly - SCARY huh?) uses 1024Mb = 1Gb.
Same happened with Mb drives in the old days. The maunfacturers used 1000Kb = 1Mb, whereas the correct conversion was 1024Kb = 1Mb.
Always resulted in the drive showing up in Windows apparently smaller that it's actual capacity.
Result is the bigger the drive, the more space that appears to be missing.
Add to that the space reserved for partitioning information and the drive tables they can appear to be a lot smaller that thier 'advertised' size.