only 32GB of 40GB being shown.

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Mani Mathur

I have a hard disk of 40GB which was working fine. Lately, after a
format, it is showing only 31GB on creation of 2NTFS partitions and
WinXP. The CheckIt tool of Norton shows two partitions: one is
0(bootable ) IFS partition of 4052MB and other is extended int13
partition of 3610 MB. this space doesnt fiure anywhere else. Where is
problem and how to recover it?
 
Mani said:
I have a hard disk of 40GB which was working fine. Lately, after a
format, it is showing only 31GB on creation of 2NTFS partitions and
WinXP. The CheckIt tool of Norton shows two partitions: one is
0(bootable ) IFS partition of 4052MB and other is extended int13
partition of 3610 MB. this space doesnt fiure anywhere else. Where
is problem and how to recover it?
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40GB hard disk drive...
31GB of partitions?

But the two you listed are only 7.5GB - at most.

~ 4052MB+3610MB = 7662MB
~ 7662MB/1024 = 7.4824GB

First, what does Disk Manager show?
(Norton - despite being a decent utility application - is a third party
tool - what does Windows say?)

To start Disk Management:

1. Log on as administrator or as a member of the Administrators
group.
2. Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK.
3. In the console tree, click Disk Management. The Disk Management
window appears. Your disks and volumes appear in a graphical
view and list view. To customize how you view your disks and
volumes in the upper and lower panes of the window, point to
Top or Bottom on the View menu, and then click the view that
you want to use.

Also know that in general, the advertised capacity of a hard disk drive vs
its actual formatted capacity is quite different.

Advertised --- Actual Capacity
10GB --- 9.31 GB
20GB --- 18.63 GB
30GB --- 27.94 GB
40GB --- 37.25 GB
60GB --- 55.88 GB
80GB --- 74.51 GB
100GB --- 93.13 GB
120GB --- 111.76 GB
160GB --- 149.01 GB
180GB --- 167.64 GB
200GB --- 186.26 GB
250GB --- 232.83 GB
320GB --- 298.02 GB
400GB --- 372.53 GB
500GB --- 465.66 GB

So you should be seeing approximated 93% of the advertised capacity - or
37.25GB of usable space.

How did you "format" things?
With an actual bootable Windows XP CD - format and reinstall?
Or with a vendor provided "recovery set"?
 
Your numbers only add up to 7 gigs or so... It sounds like, depending on the
brand of PC, that they may have set up some kind of restore partition. Just
a guess.
 
The disk manager shows c: 11.96GB d: 19.53GB only( and 7MB free space,
that is obvious), and no other drives which adds up to 31.49GB. if i
add the 7.5GB shown by Norton, it somewhat adds to 39GB, though not the
37GB which used to appear earlier. All formats were done by windows XP
bootable installation CD's. I had installed Linux along with XP long
time back, can the unknown disk space shown as IFS accountable to it?
Anyway, how to recover it?
 
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