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[DrMDJ]

The reason for the 147 vs 160 difference is due to fact that hard drive manufacturers define a gigabyte as 1,000,000,000 bytes, whereas at the pc software level a gigabyte is defined as 2**30 or 1,073,741,824 bytes. So, what a hard drive manufacturer says is a 160gb drive is a drive with 160,000,000,000 bytes in capacity, but to software like PM it is actually 160,000,000,000 / 1,073,741,824 = 149.11gb (roughly what you are seeing in PM).

So are you saying now that if you run the Dos-based PM that it shows you there are currently no partitions defined? If not, what does it show as defined?

[themanwhowas]

hi guys,
been a while since the last post on this thread. i got annoyed and gave up but now im back in business baby. due to another hdd problem (blaster virus i do believe) i was forced to format my hard drive and reinstall windows. this was suggested as a way to make partition manager work. i tried it out. although no error messages were produced, the partition did not work. when i had set up my patrition options, partition manager told me that it was going to restart and the boot manager would start. from here i should boot into windows where i may complete my partitioning. boot manager loaded ok but it crashed when i chose to boot windows. until i restarted my cpu. then boot manager would start again, let me boot into windows, but the partitioning never happened. i tried this several times and the same result everytime. help?