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double the size of your hardrive - free

oh my god, it`s huge (Competent) posted this on Tuesday, 9th March 2004, 16:00

http://www.theinquirer.net/Default.aspx?article=14597

:D I like it :D


Matt

This man blows goats. I have proof....

RE: double the size of your hardrive - free

Spiny Norman (Elite) posted this on Tuesday, 9th March 2004, 17:10

So are we gonna get this as spam now?

Instead of `make yor todger touch the ground(cut your legs off) emails, we`re gonna get
`make your hard disk double in size - be the envy of all the other geeks - even get a girfriend!!!.....`

Bloody `ell - wot next!


SN

RE: double the size of your hardrive - free

oh my god, it`s huge (Competent) posted this on Tuesday, 9th March 2004, 17:37

What, are you seriously trying to imply that there isn`t 310Gb of hidden storage space on my hard drive?

Pah >:(

Matt

This man blows goats. I have proof....

RE: double the size of your hardrive - free

Donster (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Tuesday, 9th March 2004, 18:16

So anyone tried it yet??

Sam

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg

RE: double the size of your hardrive - free

Spiny Norman (Elite) posted this on Tuesday, 9th March 2004, 18:21

Quote:
What, are you seriously trying to imply that there isn`t 310Gb of hidden storage space on my hard drive?

No..

It should be interesting to find out where all this `hidden` partition space is coming from.

Perhaps it`s space marked as unusable by the original low-level format and therfore totally bloody useless. Or maybe the manufacturers are `downsizing` their higher capacity drives, so that they need make only single geometry-set drives.

Like I say, should be interesting....

Doubt if I`d use it though - I tend to have a phillosophy of `if it ain`t broke, don`t fix it`


SN

This item was edited on Tuesday, 9th March 2004, 18:23

RE: double the size of your hardrive - free

Small Cheese (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Tuesday, 9th March 2004, 21:39

I wouldn`t try this unless you backup the drive. Judging by the method used (Switch power off while rebooting) I think it is just corrupting to drive partition table. If it works! you will probably find any additional space you use will eat into your current drive space .

Its similar to the protection method used on CD`s and DVD`s which makes the operating system think a single file on the disk is larger than the space on the whole disk

RE: double the size of your hardrive - free

alterego (Competent) posted this on Tuesday, 9th March 2004, 22:44

Given that you can buy 200Gb hard drives for £100 or so, this sounds like a seriously bad idea, unless you really like the sort of challenge that recovering the data from a hard drive with a non-standard format presents...

RE: double the size of your hardrive - free

Miles (Elite Donator) posted this on Wednesday, 10th March 2004, 08:44

Definitely agree with alterego

If you have a spare drive to "play" with - then by all means give it a shot - but I seriously doubt that it`s a viable option or a few more people would have done so by now. I`ve been around computers for a long while and the kind of thing they`re talking about doesn`t make much sense.

The quote "UPDATE II" on the website looks like it refers to some PC manufacturers who use hidden partitions to store the restore images of PCs they sell...which is common enough - but they`re only talking about a few Gb`s max




"I didn`t lose my mind, it was mine to give away"

RE: double the size of your hardrive - free

Spiny Norman (Elite) posted this on Wednesday, 10th March 2004, 12:02

Quote:
The quote "UPDATE II" on the website looks like it refers to some PC manufacturers who use hidden partitions to store the restore images of PCs they sell...which is common enough - but they`re only talking about a few Gb`s max


Besides, hidden partitions aren`t hidden to products like Partition Magic.

I`d strongly suggest we follow the previous advice - if you need more space, buy it! :)

SN

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