hard drive

I would say that there is no wasted space on the disk and what you are seeing is the difference between
1Gb = 1000Mb (Often used by hard-disk manufacturers to advertise drives being bigger than they actually are sell drives)
and
1Gb = 1024Mb (the accurate one)

Well randy, it may be that when you install the ubuntu, it creates a new partition in ext3 format, and when you unistall ubuntu the partition stay, that's may be. But if you installed ubuntu inside Windows this may not be the solution for you but you can try it.

For this, in the livecd of ubuntu, I mean when you start ubuntu by the livecd, there is a tool called Partition editor where you can see and manage partitions and their formats, if you see a partition with ext3 format in this tool, you can resize to the less memory possible or erase the partition[if it's possible]. Then the free memory without format you can pass it to your ntfs partition[Windows partition] by resizing to a higher size.

I hope that this answer helps you, if you need more information just ask.

to tell you the truth i didn't get that. right now im using windows vista and then my hard drive supposed to be has a 40g but after i uninstall ubuntu and replace it with vista my hard drive became 37g. what should i do? do i need to install again ubuntu using  my livecd to look for the partition editor? how will i do that? and one thing more im trying to have a dual boot but after the installation there was no option for ubuntu, vista boots up only. but i check to control panel it was perfectly installed to inside vista. badly need your help. i really appreciate it. thanks!

--- On Sun, 9/7/08, Edgar Polanco <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Edgar Polanco <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #44331]: hard drive
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Sunday, September 7, 2008, 12:13 AM

Your question #44331 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/44331

Edgar Polanco proposed the following answer:
Well randy, it may be that when you install the ubuntu, it creates a new
partition in ext3 format, and when you unistall ubuntu the partition
stay, that's may be. But if you installed ubuntu inside Windows this may
not be the solution for you but you can try it.

For this, in the livecd of ubuntu, I mean when you start ubuntu by the
livecd, there is a tool called Partition editor where you can see and
manage partitions and their formats, if you see a partition with ext3
format in this tool, you can resize to the less memory possible or erase
the partition[if it's possible]. Then the free memory without format you
can pass it to your ntfs partition[Windows partition] by resizing to a
higher size.

I hope that this answer helps you, if you need more information just
ask.

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Well randy, i can tell you that you don't need to reinstall ubuntu, just run ubuntu by the livecd[for try]. Then you go to the menu System->Administration->Partition Editor, when you click on it then appear the partition editor. In the window you can see the differents partitions you have, as I said before you can resize the partitions.

Now in the partition editor, verify that your partitions and resize/erase(if is possible) the ext3 partition and then pass the free memory to your Windows[ntfs] partition.

I hope this help, if you need details and more information just ask it.