Virtual Harddisk Missing

[devilsdarbar]

Hi,

I had Ubuntu 9.10 as my Host and WindowsXP as my guest OS on VirtualBox 3.0.10. I formatted my PC without uninstalling VirtualBox, deleting all the hard drives and installed WindowsXP as my host OS. But in this process, its showing that i have only 150GB of hard disk space whereas my hard disk is of 160GB. During installation of windows XP, the repartioning screen showed only 150GB.

PLEASE can anyone help me with the missing 10GB ??

How to recover the 10Gb Virtual harddisk ??

Thanking you,
Saurabh Dedha.

[mpack]

This doesn't make sense. If you reformatted your host then this isn't a VBox support question, it's an XP support question.

Are you under the impression that a virtual disk permanently reserves space on your physical disk? It does not. If you have repartitioned and reformatted the host drive then any virtual drives you had stored on there are gone for good, along with every other application file and all data. The "missing" 10GB is probably just a difference in how two tools report the drive size.

[MarkCranness]

If you bought your hard disk as a 160GB drive, it likely has >160GiB, that is >160 x 10^9 bytes and not >160 x 2^30 bytes.
In other words, did your hard disk *EVER* actually have 160GB, as reported by Windows Explorer?
My WD6401AALS was sold as 640GB, and has 640,132,416,000 bytes which is only 596GB as reported by Windows.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte#C ... _confusion