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How would reclaim lost Hd space?
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Jun 20, 2006, 10:20 PM
 
Got an old drive (120 gb maxtor). Upon mounting the disk their appears to only be 31.5 GB listed as possible drive space. I know their must be a partition I can't see. Tried the apple disk utility with no luck. Just looking for ideas. Any help would appretiated.
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Jun 21, 2006, 10:11 AM
 
If it shows "31.5 GB available", that means free space. Click on the drive icon and hit Command-i for further info. The Capacity line should list around 111 GB.

If it lists a Capacity number substantially smaller, then you can suspect that the partition is smaller than it needs to be, or that there is another partition on the drive.
     
   
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