Weird Partitions on Disk

0S1R1S · 11-20-2006, 02:38 PM

I have a disk in my server with music on it, when I installed Windows I noticed some weird stuff about it during the installation.. Here's how it reads..

38179MB Disk 0 at id 1 on bus 0 on Atapi

Unpartitioned Space 82351MB
Unpartitioned Space 24158MB
D: NTFS (Music) 831050MB (13479 free)
-- Unknown 265613MB

Now its only a 40GB drive, with 26 gigs used, and 14 free. Where is all this other information coming from?

I also noticed some weird activity on the drive itself. Some of my music is now compressed.. I noticed when all my files started to become blue.. I have never compressed any of my data.

Now I just did a new installation of Windows.. Would it do compression automatically to save space?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

**8210GUY** · 11-20-2006, 06:19 PM

Well disk 0 is your C drive and it always calls them atapi devices don't know why), but your numbers don't add up to me, are you reading them right and using the correct value's ? and do you have a second hard drive in there that these could of come from ? but those numbers add up to over 100gb, so unless you have a second drive something is off.
Also was the drive pre-installed by a store ? because they use hidden partitions to store the software and os on, and I have seen options to compress files during clean ups so thats probably whats happened there

11-20-2006, 02:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
0S1R1S Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 122 OS: XP Pro / 2000 Server	Weird Partitions on Disk I have a disk in my server with music on it, when I installed Windows I noticed some weird stuff about it during the installation.. Here's how it reads.. 38179MB Disk 0 at id 1 on bus 0 on Atapi Unpartitioned Space 82351MB Unpartitioned Space 24158MB D: NTFS (Music) 831050MB (13479 free) -- Unknown 265613MB Now its only a 40GB drive, with 26 gigs used, and 14 free. Where is all this other information coming from? I also noticed some weird activity on the drive itself. Some of my music is now compressed.. I noticed when all my files started to become blue.. I have never compressed any of my data. Now I just did a new installation of Windows.. Would it do compression automatically to save space? Any help is appreciated. Thanks. __________________ Smith & Wesson — The original point and click interface.

11-20-2006, 06:19 PM	#2 (permalink)
8210GUY TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,558 OS: xp Pro	Well disk 0 is your C drive and it always calls them atapi devices don't know why), but your numbers don't add up to me, are you reading them right and using the correct value's ? and do you have a second hard drive in there that these could of come from ? but those numbers add up to over 100gb, so unless you have a second drive something is off. Also was the drive pre-installed by a store ? because they use hidden partitions to store the software and os on, and I have seen options to compress files during clean ups so thats probably whats happened there