[jugglera]

Hello guys..
I have recently bought a 120Gb seagate hard disk.
After i installed it in the system , i run the partition magic program to partition and format the disk.I noticed that partition magic could "see" 114Gb instead of 120Gb.
But when i run the seagate support software it can "see"all 120GB.
Also i intend to install linux in my system so i want to format the disk with fat32 but fat 32 can hold partitions up to 34Gb.Is there anyway to exeed this limitation?It would be ideal to have 2 partitions of 60Gb each.

Thanks in advance..

[Whiteskin]

I think that is a standard problem with FAT. The actual file table takes room, though i'm not sure about 6 gigs of room.

[tnik]

thats the problem with the difference between Hard Drive standards and everyone elses standard.. a TRUE gigabyte is 1,024 MB where the hard drive manufactures say that a gigabyte is 1,000 MB... do the math and that is probably where your 6 gigs are..

as for the fat limatitions, I can't help you with that, I never had a fat partition over 20 GB..

[LONGHAIR]

You will generally lose 5-7% of the total drive space due to the overhead of formatting.

[Whiteskin]

Then that seems about right. 6% off that drive would make it 112.