" LINPUS LITE " i lost 35gb of storage .!!!!

[droid]

hi guys,
my friend recently purchased an "ACER ASPIRE 5742" laptop..with 500gb HDD, i3 380M processor,3gb ram, and LINPUS LITE MOBLIN OS preinstalled. He was having problem with this new OS, he dont know anything to do with linpus lite. :huh:

He told me it only displaying 435gb in the file manager, also he was not able to play any video or audio, so he decide to install Windows 7. Before installing new OS he deleted the partition and created 3 new partitions to install windows 7. On installing windows 7, he noticed only 465 GB of storage is available.
Only thing i can do is ask you guys.. i dont know where else to go for a solution. And any of my friends knows much about LINPUS LITE.

 

[Dark Star]

Post the output of

fdisk -l && free -m && df -h

 

[H2O]

Thats because the OS converts 1024mb = 1GB.
Whereas, HDD manufacturers claim 1000MB=1GB.

But, he still seems to be missing a few GBs tell him to check with the storage manager on Windows 7.

 

[raksrules]

hi guys,

my friend recently purchased an "ACER ASPIRE 5742" laptop..with 500gb HDD, i3 380M processor,3gb ram, and LINPUS LITE MOBLIN OS preinstalled. He was having problem with this new OS, he dont know anything to do with linpus lite. :huh:

He told me it only displaying 435gb in the file manager, also he was not able to play any video or audio, so he decide to install Windows 7. Before installing new OS he deleted the partition and created 3 new partitions to install windows 7. On installing windows 7, he noticed only 465 GB of storage is available.

Only thing i can do is ask you guys.. i dont know where else to go for a solution. And any of my friends knows much about LINPUS LITE.

What your friend is getting is proper and dont expect to get 500GB full. It is all because of how manufacturers interpret 1GB as so on an average per GB you loose 24 MB or even more and hence you get less GBs.

I recently purchased a 500GB seagate externall HDD and number of GBs is something similar to what you get.

But still if skeptical, under computer management check under disk management if there is an unallocated part of your HDD and if there is then allocate the same to retrieve those GBs

 

[adilj]

If the HDD manufacturing and OS thing come into pic 500GB HDD means 500*1000 from the manufacturer's end and for the OS it wil become 500*1000/1024 = 488.281 Gb...

488.281-465 (that is displayed) = 23.281Gbs are unaccounted for - which by my guess is kept as a windows backup and its never allocated so check disk management and am sure u will find some unallocated space there...

 

[R0H!T]

As far as I know 465GB is correct. I have a WD external HDD of 500GB. That too has 465 available.
Regarding 435GB when using Linpus, I dont remember the exact details but I recently bought 4738z which also has 500GB. I immediately uninstalled Linpus and installed Win7. But while doing so I noticed an extra partition that was ~30GB.. which was not visible through Linpus. So when I deleted all existing partitions, total available space was ~465GB.

 

[letmein]

If the HDD manufacturing and OS thing come into pic 500GB HDD means 500*1000 from the manufacturer's end and for the OS it wil become 500*1000/1024 = 488.281 Gb...

488.281-465 (that is displayed) = 23.281Gbs are unaccounted for - which by my guess is kept as a windows backup and its never allocated so check disk management and am sure u will find some unallocated space there...

Doesn't work that way, get total into bytes, then divide by 1024 thrice

So It'll be 500 GB = 500*1000(MB)*1000(KB)*1000(Bytes)/1024*1024*1024 = 465 GB

 

[droid]

Thats because the OS converts 1024mb = 1GB.

Whereas, HDD manufacturers claim 1000MB=1GB.

But, he still seems to be missing a few GBs tell him to check with the storage manager on Windows 7.

thank you

storage manger shows 477GB on windows 7

 

[adilj]

Doesn't work that way, get total into bytes, then divide by 1024 thrice

So It'll be 500 GB = 500*1000(MB)*1000(KB)*1000(Bytes)/1024*1024*1024 = 465 GB

Ohhh sorry then... My BAD and thanks for correcting me...

 

[Lord Nemesis]

Doesn't work that way, get total into bytes, then divide by 1024 thrice

So It'll be 500 GB = 500*1000(MB)*1000(KB)*1000(Bytes)/1024*1024*1024 = 465 GB

Yes, that is exactly how its calculated. Also guy's, don't forget that regardless of which ever file system you use, it will require space for the file system tables as well and the amount of space can vary depending on the file system being used.

In addition to that, Linux and most of its variants create separate boot and at least one swap partition as part of a default install in addition to the one partition visible to you containing the rest of the OS and user files. If you are looking at the size of just that partition, then it will be lower than size of the hard disk.