Partitioning Disks Questions

[anotheruser2]

Looking to partition a 2Tb drive (useable spave says 1.8Tb, but 190......Mb.

Looking to parition to the following:

500Gb
580Gb
580Gb
150Gb
XXGb (whatever is left)

Typed in the 500000Mb in Disk Management but it's now given me a parition of 488.28Gb.

Is there a way I can ensure it's 500.xxGb?


Secondly, I've now partitioned it but in Computer, it says there's 372Gb free of 488Gb.
But the disk is empty?

Puzzled!

Thanks

 

[SkyNetRising]

Basic math.

500 GB = 512000 MB (500*1024)
580 GB = 593920 MB (580*1024)
150 GB = 153600 MB (150*1024)

XXGB = 52.64 GB

 

[anotheruser2]

Thanks - I see. Knew it was something to do with the extra 24 business.

 

[captaincharisma]

some space is taken up when formatting.

 

[USAFRet]

1. 1.81TB is exactly correct for a "2TB" drive.

2. Why the partitioning? What will this be used for?

 

[jeremyj_83]

Hard Drive vendors market their stuff in Gigabyte but your operating system sees it in terms of Gibibytes. A gigabyte is 1billion bytes, 10e9, where as a gibibyte is 1.024billion bytes as it is 2^10.

 

[anotheruser2]

Why the partitioning? What will this be used for?

Games
Documents
Downloads
Storage / Things I'm working on / Projects
Things to transfer to an external hard drive (which I do once every few months)

 

[USAFRet]

Why the partitioning? What will this be used for?

Games
Documents
Downloads
Storage / Things I'm working on / Projects
Things to transfer to an external hard drive (which I do once every few months)

IMHO, that's better left as just top level folders on that drive.
Partitions have a way of being 'too small' for a named use.

For instance, with a 500GB partition.
You have 450GB used up.
You want to install a game that consumes 80GB.
You can't, even though the physical drive has plenty of free space in the other partitions.

But, to each his own.

 

[anotheruser2]

Why the partitioning? What will this be used for?

Games
Documents
Downloads
Storage / Things I'm working on / Projects
Things to transfer to an external hard drive (which I do once every few months)

IMHO, that's better left as just top level folders on that drive.
Partitions have a way of being 'too small' for a named use.

For instance, with a 500GB partition.
You have 450GB used up.
You want to install a game that consumes 80GB.
You can't, even though the physical drive has plenty of free space in the other partitions.

But, to each his own.

Yeah, but that'll never be me as the partitions are too big for what I really need at the moment anyway.
Considering I'm doing fine with a 500Gb hard drive partitioned in the same way 😉
Plus, if I need to make more room, I can always extend one of the other partitions and swap space around but I don't see that happening.

 

[bicycle_repair_man]

IMHO, that's better left as just top level folders on that drive.
Partitions have a way of being 'too small' for a named use.

For instance, with a 500GB partition.
You have 450GB used up.
You want to install a game that consumes 80GB.
You can't, even though the physical drive has plenty of free space in the other partitions.

But, to each his own.

I agree, I really don't see the point in creating partitions or volumes when an ordinary file structure will do the job. If you needed to section off data based on drive letters or install multiple operating systems then a volume or partition would be the way to go.

But again, to each their own.

 

[captaincharisma]

Why the partitioning? What will this be used for?

Games
Documents
Downloads
Storage / Things I'm working on / Projects
Things to transfer to an external hard drive (which I do once every few months)

you realize folders (also called directories) separate those those types of data too right? you can get the same effect by having one partition for your OS and programs and another for the rest. you are just making a mess of your drive by having all those partitions.

if the drive does fail or get corrupted partitioning like that will not save you

 

[anotheruser2]

I understand.

But It's become a habit now when clicking on "Computer" being able to access games or documents, music or whatever without having to double click into a generically named drive like "Stuff".

I get it only saves one click but it's just the way I have worked for years now.

 

[USAFRet]

I understand.

But It's become a habit now when clicking on "Computer" being able to access games or documents, music or whatever without having to double click into a generically named drive like "Stuff".

I get it only saves one click but it's just the way I have worked for years now.

You can do it if you want.
I wouldn't.

You know...you can create shortcuts to individual folders, and have them appear in Quick Access or on the Desktop.
Just like specific named partitions.
One click, and you're looking at only that folder.