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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It's not junk and its not that much either (not 70+120). I'm only using up about 150gb right now. |
HyperLamer
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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
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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
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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
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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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