Hello,
yes, sorry, I was just thinking into this sole direction that I left out all
the other possibilities.

But I'm interested in what the problem finally was...
Greetings,
P. Di Stolfo

"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.am.invalid.domain> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> 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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