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Posted on 04-10-05 10:17 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Trapster
Originally posted by Kitten Yiffer
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
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Posted on 04-10-05 10:43 PM Link | Quote
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


(edited by Trapster on 04-10-05 05:43 AM)
(edited by Trapster on 04-10-05 05:43 AM)
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Posted on 04-10-05 10:51 PM Link | Quote
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.....)
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Posted on 04-10-05 11:53 PM Link | Quote
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.


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Posted on 04-10-05 11:57 PM Link | Quote
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.
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Posted on 04-11-05 06:49 AM Link | Quote
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. )
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Posted on 04-11-05 07:59 AM Link | Quote
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.
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Posted on 04-11-05 07:19 PM Link | Quote
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).
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Posted on 04-12-05 03:06 AM Link | Quote
It did for me. Mine could only go up to 127, so I partitioned the 250 in half and it worked fine.
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Posted on 04-12-05 09:39 PM Link | Quote
Can I partition it even if I
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Posted on 04-12-05 09:45 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Trapster
Can I partition it even if I
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Posted on 04-12-05 10:20 PM Link | Quote
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).
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