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John
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29th Mar 10 at 18:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Anybody use one?

I've got a 1tb sata drive hooked up to ide using a converter.

Just tried to install something and its telling me there's no disc space left, files on drive only add up to about 400gb.

Drive shows as 1tb in windows, only thing I can think of is a funky problem with the converter but finding out means going up in the loft, which I'll end up needing to do, though I'd ask first.

Anybody came across it before?
Steve
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29th Mar 10 at 18:17   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
ide max size setting in bios maybe
John
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29th Mar 10 at 18:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Haven't checked that, means going up in the loft also though
AndyKent
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29th Mar 10 at 18:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Steve
ide max size setting in bios maybe


Wouldn't that fool windows as well?
John
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29th Mar 10 at 18:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
After going up in the loft it's doing the same connected straight to a sata motherboard

Have I bought the hard drive equivalent of fake flash drives
noshua
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The drive could be incorrectly displaying the amount of data free- I can't see it displaying more than what's actually on there though!?

You could put the serial and model number into the manufactures RMA to see if it's a dodgy or not.
John
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Got to the bottom of it.

Something, I've no idea what, had created a 500+GB file that wasn't visible to anything until I dl some file viewer program.

Completely random, never seen anything like it.
pow
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29th Mar 10 at 22:04   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I've heard of this, some lolgb recycler file?
John
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Was some .db file, was showing a dll icon.
noshua
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Weird. I'd watch out for it again though!

 
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