topic Re: Recovery partition in PCs & Accessories

Recovery partition

burwil — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:47:53 GMT

Hi everyone

My Vaio, a VGN FZ18M is advertised by Sony as having a 160GB HDD with a 7.5GB recovery partition.

Device Manager shows 2 partitions on my drive, 1 unnamed at 10,013GB and C: at 142,612MB.

However, Disk Managment shows 2 partitions totalling 149GB, 1 is 9.78GB big (and marked as healthy, 100% free and EISA configuration), the other 139.27GB (NTFS, healthy, system, boot, pagefile, active crash dump and primary partition)

Can anyone please explain what is going on? Which set of figures is correct? and how come I've lost 10GB according to Vista?

Many thanks in advance

Re: Recovery partition

littlebucko — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:00:17 GMT

hi burwil what this has happend is you have your normal hidden partision from sony for the recovery this you are not able to see there for making sure you dont mess with the files

the you have your normal hard drive space then they take another partision for files that are needed to run vista

you will find this can sometimes get bigger or smaller depending on what is going on as windows needs its own space on the hard drive

windows can take anything upto 20gb with updates ect

the disk management wont be given the same information as the device management such as the names and the sizes

hope this helps

littlebucko

Re: Recovery partition

burwil — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:29:31 GMT

Hi littlebucko

Many thanks for your answer which makes perfect sense. Can you please give me a little more information on this 'vista' partition? What does it contain? How is it sized? Am I able to cleanup unneeded files from it to minimise it's size or is it best left alone?

Thanks again - your help is very much appreciated

burwil

Re: Recovery partition

Blencogo — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:45:54 GMT

Hi burwil and welcome to Club Vaio.

Your hard disc has 160,000,000,000 bytes capacity.

Your computer's operating system cannot count properly, Windows counts in Binary (everything to the base of 2)

Because Windows uses the binary system, the nearest it can get to 1,000 bytes (a kilobyte) is 1,024 bytes - calculated as two to the power ten (2^10=1024). So it uses 1024 bytes of your storage to count a kilobyte. Similarly, it counts 1,024 KB as 1MB and 1,024MB to get 1GB.

This means your operating system is counting 1,073,741,824 bytes (2^30=1073741824) of your storage as 1 GB. This means Windows measures your 160GB drive as only 149GB.

As I said - Windows cannot count properly.

:smileyd_oh:

Re: Recovery partition

littlebucko — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:30:51 GMT

i hope we have helped with your problem

(windows 7 due this year (also in the IT world we now it as windows thunderbird because it can do handheld toutch screens on planes)

http://windows7news.com/

Re: Recovery partition

burwil — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:35:37 GMT

Yes, thank you both very much

burwil