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i recently got a sata hdd enclosure for a 2.5" hardrive from my broken laptop and i used it on my desktop but the old system files were still on it and they wouldn't delete so i did something stupid and used a program called kill-disk which basically wipes out the drive, except that when i used it - it wiped out the drive containing the system files causing me to loose 30GB. if you're going to tell me how retarded this step was - spare me, i'm totally aware, thanks.
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Some think it's loss, others know it's MATH
by R. Proffitt 
- 4/1/12 10:16 AM
In Reply to: how can i recover lost hardrive space? by biggesttroll
Let's take a 1TB drive as an example.
Now the newcomer will think it's 1,000 Billion bytes and another will think it's 1,024 Billion bytes.
That's 24GB and I didn't go very deep into how we measure disk space and how a short cut in Windows has cause a few hundred posts like yours.
Bob
the thing is that before it was split into 2 drives
by biggesttroll - 4/1/12 2:35 PM
In Reply to: Some think it's loss, others know it's MATH by R. Proffitt
with two different letters - one had 30GB and the other had 70GB but now i only have one drive with 70GB, so how do i recover the lost 30GB?
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by Kees_B - 4/1/12 2:41 PM
In Reply to: the thing is that before it was split into 2 drives by biggesttroll
You had one drive with two partitions (one 30 GB, one 70 GB). Now it seems you have a drive with one partition f 70 GB and 30 GB unallocated. Use your OS'es disk management program to allocate that 30 GB to a new partition.
http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-vista/how-to-use-disk-management-in-vista/ tells how to find disk management in Vista. In XP or Windows 7 it might be slightly different. In Linux or MacOS it's totally different. If necessary, use google to find the details for your OS.
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