kolow wrote:
> Hi, I just got my notebook with windows xp home edition, I suppose to
> have 40G harddrive, but somehow there's only 34G available, and I use
> "disk managment" to check what's going on, and I found out there's a
> unkown partition and I have already deleted whatever inside this
> partition, but I still couldnt use all the spaces in my hard drive,
> coz the partition still there and now is unallocated, pls tell me how
> can I remove this partition, thank you very much for anyone who can
> help me.

First - that "unknown partition" was likely either system utilities or a way
to restore the system in case of a problem.
Secondly - that partition cannot be that large... I would guess 3GB..

Essentially - here is the REALISTIC numbers:

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

You could use a third party tool - like partiton magic - to claim that space
and integrate it into your C drive - if you want.

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