On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:19:04 +0200, "P. Di Stolfo"
<paolodistolfo********.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> could it be that your hard drives are built in a RAID? This would mean that
> your data is mirrored onto the second drive for data security and therefore
> there are only 250 GB available.[/color]


Lest this confuse anybody, that is *not* strictly correct. There is
more than one kind of RAID. What you are describing is called RAID1,
or mirroring. RAID0, on the other hand, or striping, is not redundant,
and does not work the way you describe.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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