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Hard drive partition & wiping questions
Please ignore the wiping part. That will be in my next post. Sorry.
Questions about Hard Drive Partitions
The first report came from the laptop's Computer Management and the second from the Properties option after right clicking on C: in Windows Explorer.
Question 1: If the recovery record has a capacity of 13 GB and its free space is 13 GB, does that mean my recovery partition is empty and therefore any recovery option that the OEM had intended is gone? (This was a company laptop that was sold or given to a family member who used it for a while before selling it to me.)
Question 2: Why does Computer Management report that I have 683 GB free while C: Properties states that I only have 679 GB? (I really do not care about the 4 GB, but I am very curious as to how and why the discrepancy exists.)
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Question 3: Background: The 100 GB of Free Space was once part of the primary partition C: until I created a new 100 GB partition S: that I subsequently deleted. Question: What is the difference between 100 GB of Free Space and a 100 GB Extended Partition?
Question 4(a): Is the difference between (i) the 931.51 GB reported on the left-hand side of the table and between top and bottom, and (ii) the advertised size of the hard drive, 1,000 GB, have something to do with the data being represented by a string of zeros and ones, i.e., the binary system, and the Background: The 100 GB of Free Space was once part of the primary partition C: until I created the manner in which the data is stored on a partitioned magnetic media?
Question 4(b): Why is the sum of the Recovery, System Reserve, Primary, and Free Space partitions great than the advertised size of the hard drive; i.e., 1,000 GB versus the sum 1,031GB?
Questions about Wiping Hard Drive Partitions
Background
I have a need to wiping of my hard drive with data destruction similar to that of Acronis DiskCleanser or DBAN. That is, of course, until someone more knowledgeable than me explains why I should do something different.
Last edited by gfr92y; 27 Jan 2016 at 11:22. Reason: Correct some errors and omissions