"christophe.rhein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello and Merry Christmas to all! I got an external 320 GB USB HD. It is recognized as removable drive but I get only 298 GB out of 320 GB! What happened to the rest? How shall I format the disk so I can read and write this HD under XP and linux? Is it possible to partition this HD so I can backup my home partition and also store multimedia files on a second partition? Thank you
----cjs reply---- Ok, it is either possible that, if you partitioned it with linux, that linux made its own unmountable partition on it. However if you formatted it with another partitioner, then they only reason that i can think of is that the partition took up some space, leaving you with 298 gb. Alot of the time the partition will take up alot of space depending on the hdd size and you will notice a different amount of free space left then what the manufacturer said because when the manufacturer tested it, more then likely they didnt partition it. Id say that your read out is perfectly normal... if you want the hdd to be visible in linux and windows, format it with a NTFS or FAT32 partition. Both can be read by linux. Last i heard though, linux cant write to a ntfs, but i dont know if thats true anymore. ----end of reply---- ----end of reply---- -- Rhein Christophe Remire-Montjoly /Guyane française mails perso: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail pour les listes de diffusion: [EMAIL PROTECTED] adresse skype: christophe_rhein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message envoyé depuis un portable tournant à 100 % sous linux Mandriva 2007 et des logiciels libres. Compteur linux #383434 (http://counter.li.org/) ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
