From: home@away.com   
      
   On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 08:57:05 -0400, "ng_reader"   
    wrote:   
      
   >I'm inclined to believe this, however I need to be schooled a bit in what is   
   >a partition and what is a formatted drive. I'll assume the partition was put   
   >on there, as I ghosted, but nothing formatted. Yet when I write to the   
   >drive - no problem.   
   >   
   >But I bet you're right about the ahead of time FDISKing.   
   >   
   >Thanks for actually reading stuff here....   
   >   
   >Kind regards.   
   A partition is a segment of the drive and you may have one or more   
   partitions (usually created by FDISK).  Each partition is treated as a   
   "drive" so with two segments, you could have a C drive and a D drive   
   on the one physical drive.  This gives users flexibility to have one   
   drive for programs and one for data files, say.  But there can be many   
   variations on this.  When you create a partition, you use FDISK or   
   some similar program, then you have to format each partition.  But if   
   you "clone" a drive as in using Ghost, Ghost will create a new   
   partition, format it and write the files on the fly - but it will be a   
   copy (image) of the old drive.  My bet is that your new drive shows a   
   disk space very similar to the old drive.   
      
   Above is a rather simplistic description of partitions and hope it   
   helps (think of a partition as being like a single track on a music CD   
   or vinyl LP).  Each partition is a distinct storage area.   
      
   There are programs which can modify, create, delete existing   
   partitions.  This could be one way to get the full capacity of your   
   new drive.  Or you could scrub what;s there, create new partition(s)   
   using FDISK then FORMAT, then copy the Ghost file to the first   
   partition on the new drive.   
      
   Feel free to ask more questions - hope I can help.   
      
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