Hard disk partiton

[bobban1]

Hallo Guys
I have a Hitachi Hard disk 320gb but it only shows 230gb. I have used Easeus partition master without any luck. There is 60gb unallocated that i cant see or use.
The disk work perfectly.
Anu Help ????

[Cod3waX]

even if u plug him in and do a format from windows?

Right click drive
Click Format
& there will be a button called: Restore Device Defaults

hope this helps ya

[Bann32]

Try Gparted -

GParted LiveCD - Download.com

[mihsoft]

right click My computer - manage - disk management, find Hitachi Hard disk - unallocated partition, right clik format.

[Cod3waX]

ok so in disc management how big is the unallocated?
and is there another partition on there that the system is holding? also 320Gb written on the Hdd dosent mean 320GB

20GB = 15/18GB
60GB = 47/55GB
80GB = 64/74GB (10GB reserved)
160GB = 130/149GB (19GB reserved)
200GB = 167/186GB (19GB reserved)
250GB = 205/232GB (27GB reserved)
320GB = 263/298GB (35GB reserved)
500GB = 413/465GB (52GB reserved)

This is because the hard drive manufacturers say a gigabyte is 1000 megabytes, and 1 megabyte is 1000 kilobytes, rather than 1024 like windows reads it.

[smirnoff_rules]

this is a great tool , used a few times Paragon Partition Manager 10 Personal Portable.rar - 4shared.com - online file sharing and storage - download

[bobban1]

Didnt work

[smirnoff_rules]

wot didnt the download or the program ?

[Cod3waX]

if u want to partition a drive do it in disk management

make it unallocated if it already isnt then right click within the drive and partiton it then make them active and give them drive letters

To partition from an active drive such as ur C: u will need to use a program/tool

[Apocalypse889]

try Hitachi Drive Fitness.

If no tool works on Windows, try Hitachi Drive Fitness (Downloads) works under DOS and as a last resort you can make a low-level format. Good Luck.