Coors Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 So I've had these 2 Seagate 320gb drives for awhile. They used to have ~300gb as any 320 gb drive would. A couple years ago when I was toying with linux, I think it was Ubuntu at the time, these hdd's lost 20gb of space. They went from 300 to 279. Back then I think I tried like Partition Magic with no success in finding the missing 20gb. I wasn't about to bother with RMAing them just to get the little space back. Then I put them aside and haven't really used them since. I'm gonna be using them here soon and figured I'd try one more time at restoring them to full capacity. This time I ran Spinrite and Gparted. Neither of which was able to see the missing 20gb. I have no clue what else to try except maybe some kind of Linux command that might work to undo whatever it did....i'm not sure. Any ideas? Heres a pic of what gparted sees. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desja Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 (edited) Look up kibi bits and kilibits conversion on google and you will understand SOrry I should read the full thing before posting. Linux uses swap space for its os that is why you had missing space Edited February 11, 2009 by Desja Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coors Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 lol ya reading ftw =P Is there anyway to get that swap space back? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desja Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 lol ya reading ftw =P Is there anyway to get that swap space back? a simple quick format and the deletion of the partitions should work Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewy_fallingup Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 is the drive in the picture formatted? if so then id try kill disk and see if that helps (writes 0s and 1s to the HDD. if the drive is in use as we speak then id try tune up utilities and see if there are any backups that windows has made or restore points. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coors Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 No. It's not formatted. I've deleted the 279gb partition but that doesn't do anything for that missing 20 gb. The problem is that no program i've tried can even see the 20 gb to delete/format it. I've rewritten 0's and 1's on it with Spinrite. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewy_fallingup Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 try tune up then it found like 30gb of backups and restore pionts on my laptop which has an 80gb drive so try that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coors Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 This drive doesn't have an OS on it. If Gparted (Linux based Live cd) can't see the missing 20gb I don't think a Windows based program will either. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewy_fallingup Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Ahhhhhh. i see srry bout that. i know that my western digital drive is a 640gb drive and it basically only had 600gb free. so it might be common with that drive i'd google it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coors Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 This drive doesn't have an OS on it. If Gparted (Linux based Live cd) can't see the missing 20gb I don't think a Windows based program will either. Thats the normal conversion loss. A 640 will have 600 usable. A 320 will have 300 usable. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desja Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 just try booting up the windows os disk and look at the un partitioned space it should show up in there (sorry if you have already tried this) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coors Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 anyone? Maybe some Linux gurus out there? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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