All Hardware Zone have thrown up some follow up tests after The Inquirer's Unused space on hard drives recovered? article! Here's a snip.
With quite a bit of controversy being stirred by this article at The Inquirer, I was compelled to examine the claim of free space. Basically, the article claimed that there was a procedure available which made it possible to "recover unused areas of the hard drive in the form of hidden partitions". According to the author the the article, more than 100% of the drive's capacity could be unlocked. Could these claims possibly be true? Armed with a copy of Norton Ghost 2003 build 775, I set to work on my test drive: a 10.2Gb Samsung SV1022D (9.49GB in Windows). I installed Windows XP Pro and Ghost on the Samsung drive, and proceeded to follow the instructions from The Inquirer's article.
Hidden Space on Hard Drives?
With quite a bit of controversy being stirred by this article at The Inquirer, I was compelled to examine the claim of free space. Basically, the article claimed that there was a procedure available which made it possible to "recover unused areas of the hard drive in the form of hidden partitions". According to the author the the article, more than 100% of the drive's capacity could be unlocked. Could these claims possibly be true? Armed with a copy of Norton Ghost 2003 build 775, I set to work on my test drive: a 10.2Gb Samsung SV1022D (9.49GB in Windows). I installed Windows XP Pro and Ghost on the Samsung drive, and proceeded to follow the instructions from The Inquirer's article.
Hidden Space on Hard Drives?
