Hard Drive Question

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Hi, I've bought a new 500gig Hard drive and am installing it into my system
and reloading Windows.
I've partitioned the Hard Drive to.....
C: 300gig Primary Drive Healthy System
D: 150gig Logical Drive Healthy

Disk manager is also showing appx 50gig 'FREE' space.

I need the 50gig showing as 'FREE' to show as 'Unallocated'.
I'm assuming that 'Free' is not the same as 'Unallocated' is this
a correct assumption?

How do I turn the 50gig 'Free to 50gig 'Unallocated?

Mickey
 
Mickey said:
Hi, I've bought a new 500gig Hard drive and am installing it into
my system and reloading Windows.
I've partitioned the Hard Drive to.....
C: 300gig Primary Drive Healthy System
D: 150gig Logical Drive Healthy

Disk manager is also showing appx 50gig 'FREE' space.

I need the 50gig showing as 'FREE' to show as 'Unallocated'.
I'm assuming that 'Free' is not the same as 'Unallocated' is this
a correct assumption?

How do I turn the 50gig 'Free to 50gig 'Unallocated?

Are you sure it is 50GB?

If you have a 500GB hard disk drive - and you created what you said you did
(300+150=450) then you don't actually have 50GB free.

Marketing...

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
750GB --- ~698.49 GB
1TB --- ~931.32GB

Closer to 15-16GB left over if you are using Windows. ;-)

What do the graphs say in Disk Manager?
 
Hello Shenan, good to hear from you again.
The sizes I gave was arbitrary, actually I have
C: 292.97 GB NTFS (Healthy system)
D: 152.34 GB NTFS Healthy
and 20.45 GB 'FREE'

The question was more directed as to why it was showing
the 20.45 as 'FREE' instead of 'Unallocated'
Are they the same thing?

Mickey
 
No they are not, basically, free means it's an empty partition, unallocated
means there is no partition.

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Mickey Mouse said:
Hello Shenan, good to hear from you again.
The sizes I gave was arbitrary, actually I have
C: 292.97 GB NTFS (Healthy system)
D: 152.34 GB NTFS Healthy
and 20.45 GB 'FREE'

The question was more directed as to why it was showing
the 20.45 as 'FREE' instead of 'Unallocated'
Are they the same thing?

Mickey
 
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