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    Fujitsu hard drive reports lower capacity.

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by dagger_meerkat, Mar 15, 2007.

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    dagger_meerkat Newbie

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    I have a Fujitsu MHT2040AT hdd which is supossedly 40gb. It is installed in my X31, however, in Windows XP, the drive shows as only 33.7GB, I am very confused here.

    Why does it show as that, is there a utility you have to install so that Windows XP can recognise the full capacity?
     
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    Perhaps you are forgetting the recovery partition?
     
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    1) Recovery partition
    2) The descrepancy between 1GB and 1000MB.
     
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    No, don't think its a recovery partition. I did format the hard drive completely using fdisk and format. Not come across something like this before, completely baffled.
     
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    If you used the recovery discs, it creates it automatically. Usually it is hidden as well, so when you hit drive properties, it doesn't show up. Is it the original drive? If so, it may have the recovery partition left over even if you formatted.
     
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    I really doubt the existence of a recovery partition. I zeroed the drive using Fujitsu's low-level format utility, and nada, still getting 33.7GB instead of 40GB. I have sent off a support request to IBM Technical Support to see if they can figure it out>
     
    dagger_meerkat, Mar 16, 2007
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    Yep, you guys were right. I had no idea that the recovery partition could hide itself from low level format utilities. It indeed is the recovery partition. Thanks!

    If I do delete the partition, without burning it to CD, is it possible to download a recovery disk off the net somewhere to restore the IBM to factory condition?
     
    dagger_meerkat, Mar 16, 2007
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