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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: pooop on May 18, 2007, 05:18:20 PM

Title: Hard Drive Partitions
Post by: pooop on May 18, 2007, 05:18:20 PM

My system has a 10GB hard drive and has 3 partitions
DH0: 50MB
DH1: 4GB
DH2: 4GB
I would like to know what has happened to the 2GB that is missing. I am running OS 3.9 and boing bag 1. I haven't installed boing bag 2 over some hardware conflicts. I am also thinking of upgrading the hard drive to an 80GB maxtor but haven't formatted/partitioned a new hard drive in 7 or so years. I presume all i need is an emergency boot disk and OS 3.9 CD!
 :-?

Title: Re: Hard Drive Partitions
Post by: pjhutch on May 18, 2007, 06:55:03 PM

It really depends on how efficient an os is with Hard Disks.
On any os, you loose space due to the method, how a disk is split into cylinders or tracks, sectors, blocks and so forth and minimum allocation size.

What FileSystem have you used? Have you considered using SFS for DH1 and DH2?

Title: Re: Hard Drive Partitions
Post by: Flashlab on May 18, 2007, 06:59:06 PM

You don't lose 2Gb of a 10Gb drive because of stuff like splitting in cylinders, tracks etc.

You could try the latest HDToolBox from BB2. When BB2 fails it's most of the times because of the Rom Update. You can choose to not install it or remove it afterwards.