Is my analysis of the situation correct? I can't
think of another reason why 26GB is missing between Vista's view of the
file system and it's view from the partition
table.
According to the marketing
materials, my notebook as a 120GB hard
drive. Translating marketing GB (1,000,000,000 bytes) into
computer
science GB (1024 cubed, or 1073741824 bytes per GB) that 120GB
is
really about 111.8 real gigabytes. And, that's what the
partition
table shows for the hard drive. 
But that's NOT what Vista sees when it looks at the
drive.
That's reporting an 85.2 GB drive! Where did 26.6
GB go?
In typical fashion, I Googled around, reformated and restored
the
drive, ran CHKDSK, repartioned, reformatted, restored, and so
on.
Windows just won't see more than the 85.2.
Finally, I decided to ask the drive to take a look
at itself. I grabbed a Windows version of the SmartMon
Tools.
The SMART attribute "Reallocated_Sector_Ct" reports
8,589,934,592,000
sectors have been relocated. At 512
bytes per sector,
the math doesn't come out to 26 GB, but it's a strong indicator that
the drive is in really bad shape. I guess the time it fell
off the top
of my rolling bag at PHX and hit the floor hard might have done some
damage.
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-mingw32-vista-sp2] Copyright (C)
2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF
INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Fujitsu MHV
series
Device Model: FUJITSU MHV2120BH PL
Serial
Number: [No Information Found]
Firmware Version:
00000029
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P
show]
ATA Version is: 3
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA
specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Wed
Nov 04 13:03:53 2009 CST
SMART support is: Available - device
has SMART capability.
Enabled status cached by OS, trying
SMART RETURN STATUS cmd.
SMART support is:
Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION
===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result:
PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data
collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection:
Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous
self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has
ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 702) seconds.
Offline data
collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline
immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off
support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test
supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003)
Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:
(0x01) Error logging supported.
No General Purpose Logging
support.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling
time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test
routine
recommended polling time: ( 82)
minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended
polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SMART Attributes Data
Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes
with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH
TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate
0x0100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 14649
2
Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 000 Pre-fail Offline -
31784960
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always -
1
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always -
1430
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 000 Pre-fail
Always - 8589934592000
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 000
Pre-fail Always - 4083
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100
000 Pre-fail Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Seconds 0x0032 094 094
000 Old_age Always - 3152h+12m+19s
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013
100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032
100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1255
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count
0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 102
193 Load_Cycle_Count
0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 42284
194
Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 35 (Lifetime
Min/Max 3/60)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000
Old_age Always - 734
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100
100 000 Old_age Always - 442826752
197 Current_Pending_Sector
0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198
Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline -
0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always -
0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always
- 28853
203 Run_Out_Cancel 0x0002 100 100 000 Old_age Always -
1533291396628
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age
Always - 0
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