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510GB from a 200GB HDD?

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Post Thu Mar 11, 2004 4:54 pm

510GB from a 200GB HDD?

There is an article has been posted on the "Inquirer" website, that states that there are "hidden" partitions on all HDDs, and that by aborting an imaging procedure, you can "find" a large amount of additional HDD space, such as 510GB on a 200GB SATA HDD. Thoughts? (Can you guess what mine are? )

PS. Taw, I finished "Don Quixote" two days ago. It's quite good, if a bit verbose.

Edited by - esquilax on 3/11/2004 5:16:06 PM

Post Thu Mar 11, 2004 5:04 pm

Not bad, but I would venture to guess that you can not do that if you have XP key and all.

Finalday

/Keith Green\ (1953-1983)

Post Thu Mar 11, 2004 5:10 pm


510GB from a 200GB HDD


510GB on a 200MB SATA HDD


i'll assume it is a 200GB HDD cause ive never seen a 200mb hard drive

Post Thu Mar 11, 2004 6:53 pm

@Wolfy, my old 386 computer had a 200MB hard drive. You're just too young.

Sir S

Post Thu Mar 11, 2004 7:32 pm

I can even remember an old 386 I had that had 50mg hdd and using disk compression got it to 125mb Lot of fun back then.

Finalday

/Keith Green\ (1953-1983)

Post Thu Mar 11, 2004 8:24 pm

Interesting....Not gonna try it however.

I use to have a half gig hd. Thats the lowest I've ever had.

Life: No one gets out alive.

Post Thu Mar 11, 2004 8:31 pm

my parents used to have a Tandy1000 with 640kb of ram

that was a solid computer

Kyp

The other day, in study hall, i farted really loud, you know...so the guys would laugh...and i swear it was so hanus that Susie Johnson almost ralphed up her salsbury steak.
it was freakin sweet...

Post Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:06 pm

Damn! I had 200MB instead of 200GB!?!?! Noooo!! I have made a mistake. I'll never live it down . The error has been corrected.

Wolfy - I still have a Western Digital Caviar HDD that is 200MB. Mmm, sounds expensive!

Post Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:17 pm

i dont like western digital
my first three HDDs were western digital

Wolfy when he's happy...........................wolfy when he's mad

Post Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:40 pm

@Wolfy, all I buy is Western Digital. I've never had a problem with them and they're a good price.

There was a reformatting program I found a long time ago for floppy drives (this extra space on the HD reminds me of it). It actually created more room on a floppy disk from 1.44MB to 1.63MB. Not a huge difference, at the time it seemed like a lot more. But it was unstable and with the room, I sacrificed the number of files I could have on it. Weird. Anyway, I reformatted back to 1.44. Now I just bought a laptop that doesn't even have a floppy disk drive and a computer desktop with one that I'll probably never use.

Sir S

Post Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:46 pm

Wolfy - WD are probably the best HDDs out there. What do you prefer? The IBM "Deskstar" series? Now called "Deathstar" because they were so faulty? I understand, I don't like Seagate, mainly because I have had so many problems with them over the years. I actually think that it was the computer shop now (dodgy bastards), and I don't shop there any more.

SS - There are a number of ways to fit more than 1.44 on an FD. Ah, I remember the days when a 5 1/4 disk was the best you could hope for in portable media... thanks a lot, now I feel old again!

Post Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:10 am

I remember the good old days of our commodore, about 5Mb HD or something...

My gap year in Borneo

Post Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:03 am

i remember, when i where no but a lad, i had a 56k spectrum

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams

Post Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:30 am

OK. I'll 'fess up. I once owned a 286 @ 16Mhz. It had, at the time, whopping huge 128kb RAM and a 5Mb hdd and TWO 5.25" floppies. I was the envy of my peers. I got it for a real good price. It was a "Leading Edge" brand make. The video was 16 color VGA and I had a 11" color CRT, the kind where the wemfs projected out of the front of the monitor as well so that you had to buy a mesh or other type of wemf diffuser/neutralizer. Back then, no mouse needed. All was DOS.

My OS was.... and does any one remember this... DR-DOS by Novell and I used PC-Tools with PC-Tools' shell. Anyone remember shells?

Edited by - Indy11 on 3/12/2004 8:12:21 AM

Post Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:32 am

fookin' loved Dos-Shell. still use it occassionally on some old dos machines.

as to the OP of this thread, I say only this..

D R I V E S P A C E W A S H E R E

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