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Simon
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19th Jan 04 at 15:54   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i have 11GB
Adam
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sounds about right then
Adam
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taking ages to format
willay
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yeah when you buy the 120 disk you arent actually getting 120 gigs, its a known fact now that they lie, I'm getting the most I can out of my hard drives and thats around 111gb
Adam
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just don't remember loosing so much before, that's bigger then my 3rd hdd lol
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yeah i think as it gets bigger the loss is greater? my gf's 160gb hd is like, 150 or something silly
Adam
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yeah, lost 9gb with formatting, it's silly
Kerry
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quote:
Originally posted by James
my 60gb is 55gb according to windows


where u find that info?
willay
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right click on the C drive and go to properities kerry?
Kerry
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oooo 38 lol
John
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The loss in space is because of programmers using 1024 and hardware manufactures using 1000. Theres a terabyte external drive coming out next month.
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quote:
Originally posted by x8john
The loss in space is because of programmers using 1024 and hardware manufactures using 1000. Theres a terabyte external drive coming out next month.


thought it was something like this.


oh and if you mean the terabyte external drive which comes with fancy ports like usb/firewall, thats actually 4 hard drives I believe
John
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It is more than 1. I think the biggest hd u can get at the moment might be 300 gig. U can defo get 250 though.
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from a 180gb HDD i get 172gb!

i have it split into 127gb and 45 gb. also have a 4gb hdd for porn is there anyway i can put a password on this hdd in windows? or on the folder?
Icy
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its like this too on the iPods
40gb one is only bout 36gb
dave17
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U can get progs that will encrypt whole parttions. Not got the name of any off the top of my head.
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i'm using BestCrypt (try google), which lets me make an encrypted file which i can mount then appears like a drive (like your C drive), I use a passphrase instead of just a word to lock it, and its lovely
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ohh il have a look when i get in
mjw_2k2
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just bought a 120gb seagate harddrive and i only paid final price of £65!! - www.7dayshop.com

sais on C: that i only got 114gb
dj_mikey_k
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i have a 120gig and just got a new 250gig western digtal drive
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RAH mikey, I was tempted for 200 but thought about the situation when everything goes tits up, plus I got the extra IDE controller on the SMP board so 120's will do for now before I get space hungry again
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http://www.pgpi.org/

PGPdisk does virtual volumes...

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