> Soooooooo, what I am asking is a) When you add up all of the numbers, it > appears that I only have 93gb of hard drive rather than the full 100gb, > does anyone know why this is?
Two different sorts of gigabyte, caused by marketing people getting over-enthusiastic. The "Proper" gigabyte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, because 1024 is a power of two, and computers prefer to count in powers of two. So a proper gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes. But hard disk manufacturers want to make their drives look bigger, so they measure the size in billions of bytes, or 1,000,000,000 bytes. That's about 7% smaller than a real gigabyte. Your drive is 93 real gigabytes, which is the same actual amount of storage as 100 billion bytes, just measured differently. > b) Can somebody explain to me (not too technically please!) why the > drive is partitioned like this and why I keep getting this "disk full" > message when I still have almost 60gb of space left on the "D" > partition. c) why does the "D" partition appear to have no files on it > but has 2.27gb "used" d) why doesn't my 'puter use the larger 60gb > partition at all?!? Windows doesn't use a raw drive, in much the same way as a filing cabinet doesn't hold loose sheets of paper. Drive letters are a way of organising the space, so roughly equivalent to drawers in a filing cabinet. Your hard drive is organised into two drawers of unequal size. Windows carries putting stuff into the default drawer, and then complains that it's full. It does this because it's extremely stupid - like an dumb filing clerk, who says that he can't put files into the second drawer, because the first drawer is for the A-Z files, and so everything belongs in there. As for why your computer is set up like this, I don't precisely know. I think it is something to do with providing your master copy of Windows on the hard disk, rather than the manufacturers having to pay Microsoft a dollar or so for a CD with Windows on. Since I tend to buy my computers from technical, rather than consumer sales organisations, I don't actually know why it's done this way, or if anything bad will happen if you start telling Windows to put files on D. Hopefully, someone else can tell you that bit. --- John Dallman, [EMAIL PROTECTED], HTML mail is treated as probable spam.
