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FreeDOS
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And if you don't want to shell out any money, QtParted is free (available on SystemRescueCd if you don't have a Linux to install it on).
||bass
Posts: 308/817
Originally posted by Trapster
Can I partition it even if I
Ran-chan
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Can I partition it even if I
HyperLamer
Posts: 4156/8210
It did for me. Mine could only go up to 127, so I partitioned the 250 in half and it worked fine.
Vystrix Nexoth
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Originally posted by FreeDOS
About the hard disk size issue.

Hard disk manufacturers advertise size using a metric gigabyte (exactly one billion bytes). Most operating systems and applications measure size with a binary system (1GB = 1073741824 bytes). So when your operating system measures size, it seems smaller because it's using a bigger gigabyte than the manufacturer.
Yeah, I know what you mean. When I got this hard drive (/dev/hdb, cf. my last post), it said "10GB", though it turns out it's actually 9.3GB (the .3 serves as swap space).
FreeDOS
Posts: 1356/1657
Partitioning won't help if it can't recognise anything above 128GB. Though most modern OSes are in protected mode, so they bypass the BIOS completely and see the entire disk.
HyperLamer
Posts: 4139/8210
That's usually it; also, some older BIOSes/boards can't measure above 127GB, so you need to partition it.

And it's easy to fill up a couple dozen gigs when you're downloading several episodes of shows at ~200MB each. I'm up to 70GB used myself, including about 15GB of non-video files. (Though back when those files filled my entire HD, before I upgraded it... Not fun! Nothing says 'too small' like not being able to burn a CD because you don't have room for the temp files. )
FreeDOS
Posts: 1351/1657
About the hard disk size issue.

Hard disk manufacturers advertise size using a metric gigabyte (exactly one billion bytes). Most operating systems and applications measure size with a binary system (1GB = 1073741824 bytes). So when your operating system measures size, it seems smaller because it's using a bigger gigabyte than the manufacturer.
Vystrix Nexoth
Posts: 300/348
I can't help but wonder if ||bass realizes that not everyone does things requiring hundreds of gigabytes of disk space.

zerosoul@zeromachine:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb3             8.7G  8.1G  158M  99% /
/dev/hdb2              16M  4.1M   11M  29% /boot
/dev/hda1             4.1G  3.6G  467M  89% /win


(/dev/hdb1 = ~384MB swap. and yes, I realize I could do with a more elaborate partitioning scheme)

0.158 GB free space on my main partition; a little under half a gig on the windows partition. And that's quite sufficient for most of the stuff I do. Not everyone deals in lossless DVD rips or other such things.
DarkSlaya
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Heh. I only have a 30gb Harddrive.

...

What? I'm gonna buy another one soon (don't currently need it, as I have 10gb left. But I'm upgrading my internet connection, too, so.....)
Ran-chan
Posts: 8955/12781
I guess they formated it using a bad program/method or whatever it is. Usually HDs only loses around 5 GB or something like that or even less.

I only have like...5.9 GB left. It
||bass
Posts: 304/817
Originally posted by Trapster
Originally posted by Ailure
Mmm, I have two HD's. One is 50 GB and the other one is 80 GB (which we bought for very cheap). We're getting a new computer soon and well...

I'm not really a pack rat, I tend to throw away the ISO file whenever I burnt something. .


I have one HD and it
Ran-chan
Posts: 8947/12781
Originally posted by Ailure
Mmm, I have two HD's. One is 50 GB and the other one is 80 GB (which we bought for very cheap). We're getting a new computer soon and well...

I'm not really a pack rat, I tend to throw away the ISO file whenever I burnt something. .


I have one HD and it
BMF98567
Posts: 760/1261
I ran Windows 98 on a 2GB drive for several years without problems. It's hard to fill that much space when you don't have broadband, though.

(Now that I do have it, I have a combined storage capacity of 312GB on two computers. How times have changed...)
FreeDOS
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Well, it may not be all junk.. but with 150GB, I just can't comprehend what in the hell you have/do.
||bass
Posts: 303/817
It's not junk and its not that much either (not 70+120). I'm only using up about 150gb right now.
HyperLamer
Posts: 4082/8210
Holy flute, why didn't I know about this before? Frickin awesome tool. (Wonder if you could use it to disable network storage quotas? ) Know any other 'hidden' commands like that?

...Or I could just read the list on microsoft.com.
Ailure
Posts: 9229/11162
Mmm, I have two HD's. One is 50 GB and the other one is 80 GB (which we bought for very cheap). We're getting a new computer soon and well...

I'm not really a pack rat, I tend to throw away the ISO file whenever I burnt something. At least when it comes to various Linux distros I burnt.
FreeDOS
Posts: 1348/1657
I don't understand how you can have 70+120 GB of junk...

I have a hard disk that's "only" 40GB (actual: 38), but about 30GB of it is free.
||bass
Posts: 302/817
You people seriously pack it in. I had to buy an extra disc controller and another 120gb disc because the first 120gb ran out of space.
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