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||bass Programmer Admin Level: 44  Posts: 304/817 EXP: 570813 For next: 40472 Since: 03-15-04 From: Salem, Connecticut Since last post: 26 days Last activity: 11 days |
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Originally posted by TrapsterOriginally posted by Kitten Yiffer |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143  Posts: 8955/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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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 (edited by Trapster on 04-10-05 05:43 AM) (edited by Trapster on 04-10-05 05:43 AM) |
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DarkSlaya POOOOOOOOOOOORN! Level: 88 Posts: 3590/4249 EXP: 6409254 For next: 241410 Since: 05-16-04 From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 8 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
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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.....) |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 300/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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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(/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. (edited by Vystrix Nexoth on 04-10-05 06:54 AM) |
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 1351/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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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. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 4139/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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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.  ) |
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 1356/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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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. | |||
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 301/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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Originally posted by FreeDOSYeah, 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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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 4156/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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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. | |||
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143 Posts: 8999/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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| Can I partition it even if I | |||
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||bass Programmer Admin Level: 44 Posts: 308/817 EXP: 570813 For next: 40472 Since: 03-15-04 From: Salem, Connecticut Since last post: 26 days Last activity: 11 days |
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Originally posted by Trapster |
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 1366/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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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). |
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