ripken204 Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 for those of u wondering about partitioning ur hdd, read these great articles on it:http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives_01.htmhttp://partition.radified.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix0978 Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 Yes, I finally get to make parts. Woooo hoooooo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix0978 Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Is there actually any way in partioning your HD without going through the windows install process. So i could just do it right now instead of having to reformat or reinstall windows??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Commando Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Partition Magichttp://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix0978 Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 yeah but you have to pay for that... is there any way to do it manually? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted March 1, 2005 Author Share Posted March 1, 2005 well i havnt actually partitioned yet and one of those sites said that there is no feature in windows yet for partitioning, so try googling for one, it will probably suck tho and it might screw up ur system files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
123321 Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 The fastest way to partition a harddrive is to use the EZ diskette or CD, which comes with your harddrive. It creates partitions in less than a minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svasutin Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 Not that it really matters, but in doing sooooo many installations I've determined the following for purely aesthetic purposes.Essentailly these are the largest MB you can type and have "nice" Total Sizes for the details view of My Computer.1.00 GB = 1031 MB1.25 GB = 1290 MB2.00 GB = 2059 MB4.00 GB = 4106 MB5.00 GB = 5134 MB6.00 GB = 6153 MB7.00 GB = 7181 MB7.50 GB = 7691 MB8.00 GB = 8201 MB9.00 GB = 9228 MB10.0 GB = 10342 MB11.0 GB = 11370 MB12.0 GB = 12389 MB16.0 GB = 16484 MBThe largest MB's you can type for FAT32 is32.0 GB = 32769 MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 Where did you get those numbers?The system reads disk space in base2, i.e. in multiples of 1024 (2^10) bytes.Therefore 1GB = 1024MBYou can work out the multiples from there.This is always how I've done my parititons (or rounded up one step in the software) and they've always come out as nice numbers in Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svasutin Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 Windows rounds/truncates the values when it displays the 'total size'. I used to use the base 2 numbers, but i would get partitions like 7.99 GB so I figured I would test to find the maximum MB value I could type to get 'nice ~ .00' values.This is just a purely aesthetic thing. Yes 9.00 GB = 9216 MB, and 9228 MB = 9.01171875 MB, which windows displays as 9.00 GB. It's just a matter of squeezing in a little extra space.Most of this came about due to partitioning my notebook hdd.[Edit]These values apply to NTFSAs for the rounding up, the unformatted 8 MB, and the question of why windows moves in 7-8 MB steps, when typing in values I've approximated the step size as8224768 bytes = 7.84375 MB = 251/32 MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted March 9, 2005 Author Share Posted March 9, 2005 "round/truncates"it doesnt rounf b/c then it could round down, if talking to idiots then u can tell them it rounds dowm but rly it truncates which means that if there is a fractional part, ex:3.87 ,then the decimal is just cut off and the result would be 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svasutin Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 Ok, I have no idea how windows determines the hdd total size.I think it usesInt(10*(hdd size))/10Where the hdd size is a GB when details view is on. On some occasions Windows has displayed 1023 MB on my system when I partitioned 1 GB. So the GB reference, in this case, does not exactly mean 2^30 bytes, but the point when Windows determines GB should be used in place of the MB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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