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Originally Posted by spearball
All right thanks guys. Just had a last question. In xp, when i used to format my hard disks, the 250 gb disk was seen as 232 and thats what i was supposed to be seeing. But in vista i see a little less when i format the disk... Does that mean vista takes even more disk space out?
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On 250gb ide drives here the single primary created would see 238.4gb roughly on WD models. That's about the same for Vista as with XP with the exception of when using a 3rd party partitioning tool.
As far as the 1-8mb drive space GParted easily closed that gap when a 4mb gap was seen between two primaries on one drive in an older build. Expanding to fill in that space saw absolutely no problems with XP at all. What some don't realize is that there variances between drives due to being mass produced where there remains plus(+) and minus(-) tolerances when maching is performed in less then 1 1/1000th of an inch.
One drive platter in one drive will be only slightly larger in that sense then the one in the next drive accountlng for seeing a gap due to that at times. Plus the XP tools were never intended to be that precise. Linux on the other hand is a totally different platform seeing a different hardware detection process.