Hard Drive Capacity vs. Free Space

My BelarcAdvisor reports the following about my
drive(s):
48.56 GB Usable Hard Drive Capacity
and 46.50 GB Hard Drive Free Space.

How do I interpret this?
I can account for the 48.56 GB, but am unable to access the free space. Why
would that be?
The dreive has 80 GB.
Still puzzled.

Harry.

It would appear that your partition table may be damaged but I suspect you
know that already as I have seen you posting previous threads on the same
subject.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



webster72n wrote:

My BelarcAdvisor reports the following about my
drive(s):
48.56 GB Usable Hard Drive Capacity
and 46.50 GB Hard Drive Free Space.

How do I interpret this?
I can account for the 48.56 GB, but am unable to access the free
space. Why would that be?
The dreive has 80 GB.
Still puzzled.

Sorry Mike, but no cigar, as they say.
The damaged partition table was present on my previous 20GB drive. It since
got replaced with an 80 GB drive and everything installed from scratch.
There is also no damaged partition table anymore.
My PM8 runs perfectly on the new drive and without the error message.
If it wasn't for this one little blemish, my machine would be perfect.
Is it possible to fix my problem with PM8?
I surely would like to think so.

Harry.

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
It would appear that your partition table may be damaged but I suspect you
know that already as I have seen you posting previous threads on the same
subject.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



webster72n wrote:

My BelarcAdvisor reports the following about my
drive(s):
48.56 GB Usable Hard Drive Capacity
and 46.50 GB Hard Drive Free Space.

How do I interpret this?
I can account for the 48.56 GB, but am unable to access the free
space. Why would that be?
The dreive has 80 GB.
Still puzzled.

Harry, what does Belarc tell you about 'Local Drive Volumes'?
And, for that matter, what does Windows Explorer tell you about (each of )
your Hard Drive(s)?
Do the figures add-up there?

My *guess* is that maths may be slightly incorrect in the 'Drives'
department.

Mart


"webster72n" wrote in message
...
My BelarcAdvisor reports the following about my
drive(s):
48.56 GB Usable Hard Drive Capacity
and 46.50 GB Hard Drive Free Space.

How do I interpret this?
I can account for the 48.56 GB, but am unable to access the free space.
Why
would that be?
The dreive has 80 GB.
Still puzzled.

Harry.

Mart:

There is only 'one' hard drive, divided into C and D drive and both of them
with FAT32. C is the 'active' partition with 2GB and D with 40 GB.
The remaining 38 GB are somehow hidden and don't show up in Windows
Explorer.
Is it at all possible this might have something to do with initial 'faulty'
drive installation?
I posted this same issue before, only at a slightly different angle , but
don't remember to have found a satisfactory solution.
Should there be no 'cure', I will just have to live with it, as is, a 40GB
drive.
Hopefully there is an explanation for my 'mystery'.

Harry.



"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry, what does Belarc tell you about 'Local Drive Volumes'?
And, for that matter, what does Windows Explorer tell you about (each of )
your Hard Drive(s)?
Do the figures add-up there?

My *guess* is that maths may be slightly incorrect in the 'Drives'
department.

Mart


"webster72n" wrote in message
...
My BelarcAdvisor reports the following about my
drive(s):
48.56 GB Usable Hard Drive Capacity
and 46.50 GB Hard Drive Free Space.

How do I interpret this?
I can account for the 48.56 GB, but am unable to access the free space.
Why
would that be?
The dreive has 80 GB.
Still puzzled.

Harry.

Forgot to mention, Mart, the 'Local Drive Volume':

c: (on drive 0) 2.14 GB 897 MB free.
d: (on drive 0) 46.41 GB 45.60 GB free.

That's all.

Harry.


"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry, what does Belarc tell you about 'Local Drive Volumes'?
And, for that matter, what does Windows Explorer tell you about (each of )
your Hard Drive(s)?
Do the figures add-up there?

My *guess* is that maths may be slightly incorrect in the 'Drives'
department.

Mart


"webster72n" wrote in message
...
My BelarcAdvisor reports the following about my
drive(s):
48.56 GB Usable Hard Drive Capacity
and 46.50 GB Hard Drive Free Space.

How do I interpret this?
I can account for the 48.56 GB, but am unable to access the free space.
Why
would that be?
The dreive has 80 GB.
Still puzzled.

Harry.

Harry,

This may be an obvious question, but is the unused portion of the HD
(neither C nor D) formatted? You have PM8, use it to see what's going
on with the space allocation on the HD that you indicate is "hidden."
PM8 will see whatever space is there, and then you can determine what
you need or want to do with it, i.e., format it, partition it, etc.

Tom

webster72n wrote:
Mart:

There is only 'one' hard drive, divided into C and D drive and both of them
with FAT32. C is the 'active' partition with 2GB and D with 40 GB.
The remaining 38 GB are somehow hidden and don't show up in Windows
Explorer.
Is it at all possible this might have something to do with initial 'faulty'
drive installation?
I posted this same issue before, only at a slightly different angle , but
don't remember to have found a satisfactory solution.
Should there be no 'cure', I will just have to live with it, as is, a 40GB
drive.
Hopefully there is an explanation for my 'mystery'.

Harry.

Tom:

I had the sneaking suspision, PM8 might be helpful in solving my problem. It
shows the missing GB's, only thing is, I don't quite know what to do with
that information.
If I gave you that info, would you be willing to help me with that?

Harry.


"TomV" wrote in message
...
Harry,

This may be an obvious question, but is the unused portion of the HD
(neither C nor D) formatted? You have PM8, use it to see what's going
on with the space allocation on the HD that you indicate is "hidden."
PM8 will see whatever space is there, and then you can determine what
you need or want to do with it, i.e., format it, partition it, etc.

Tom

webster72n wrote:
Mart:

There is only 'one' hard drive, divided into C and D drive and both of
them
with FAT32. C is the 'active' partition with 2GB and D with 40 GB.
The remaining 38 GB are somehow hidden and don't show up in Windows
Explorer.
Is it at all possible this might have something to do with initial
'faulty'
drive installation?
I posted this same issue before, only at a slightly different angle ,
but
don't remember to have found a satisfactory solution.
Should there be no 'cure', I will just have to live with it, as is, a
40GB
drive.
Hopefully there is an explanation for my 'mystery'.

Harry.

Harry,

I'll certainly try to assist. I'm sure some of the "gurus" will jump in
also. How is PM8 identifying the space on the HD?

Tom

webster72n wrote:
Tom:

I had the sneaking suspision, PM8 might be helpful in solving my problem. It
shows the missing GB's, only thing is, I don't quite know what to do with
that information.
If I gave you that info, would you be willing to help me with that?

Harry.

Harry, I think you are concentrating on the wrong part of the picture. You
should be looking to claim-back the 'missing' 40GB of your 80GB HDD and
setting-up the disk correctly with PM.

I haven't been following your previous threads, however, as Tom has alluded
elsewhere in this thread, you should be re-visiting PM. - and Mike has even
suggested a possible damaged partition table 80

It's a (very) long time since I used PM (v4 thru' 6) and assuming that PM8
still works on the same principle, you *should* for example, be able to
increase your C: to 40 + 2 = 42GB. You should also be able to 'play around'
with sizing of your partitions 'on-the-fly' to see its effect long BEFORE
you commit them to a permanent change with PM.

My advice is that you carefully read the PM user manual to get a thorough
understanding of what it does, as I guess the answer to your original post
to this thread will be found there.

... but am unable to access the free space.
Why would that be?

'Finger trouble', Harry - often relieved by a treatment of RTFM g

Mart


"webster72n" wrote in message
...

Forgot to mention, Mart, the 'Local Drive Volume':

c: (on drive 0) 2.14 GB 897 MB free.
d: (on drive 0) 46.41 GB 45.60 GB free.

That's all.

Harry.


"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry, what does Belarc tell you about 'Local Drive Volumes'?
And, for that matter, what does Windows Explorer tell you about (each
of )
your Hard Drive(s)?
Do the figures add-up there?

My *guess* is that maths may be slightly incorrect in the 'Drives'
department.

Mart


"webster72n" wrote in message
...
My BelarcAdvisor reports the following about my
drive(s):
48.56 GB Usable Hard Drive Capacity
and 46.50 GB Hard Drive Free Space.

How do I interpret this?
I can account for the 48.56 GB, but am unable to access the free space.
Why
would that be?
The dreive has 80 GB.
Still puzzled.

Harry.