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Partition Trouble

Started by The Alchemist Jun 14, 2002 at 11:25 AM 8 replies 250+ views
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The Alchemist
The Alchemist
kinda... i have a 9.8gb hdd and i splited my HDD using fdisk, after while i realized that each partition was only 3.98GB i checked with fdisk and partition magic and only shows the following(well partition magic does, but the fdisk says the same): C: FAT32 4.031,9 primary *. Extended 4.024,1 primary D: FAT32 4.024,1 extended nothing about unallocted memory or anything does anyone know what may be happening or how to solve it? ------------------------------- MOTHERSHIP!!! hahaha! very funny! now take me outta here!!!!!
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Pouya
Pouya
Yes, you''ve been scammed
nick316
nick316
time to format
munkie
munkie
Buy a bigger hard-drive.
The Alchemist
The Alchemist
scammed?!?!?!

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MOTHERSHIP!!! hahaha! very funny! now take me outta here!!!!!
"Everything works out in the end, if it doesn't then it is not the end"
The Alchemist
The Alchemist
well... i checked the bios and indeed it was set to 8,4GB... but then when i entered in the bios again it was set to 10GB!!

as result notthing works in the computer anymore
it doest boot and dir only shows garbage...

no im competely lost...

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MOTHERSHIP!!! hahaha! very funny! now take me outta here!!!!!
"Everything works out in the end, if it doesn't then it is not the end"
Arion
Arion
Manualy set your BIOS hardrive settings. The Size, Cylinders, Head, Sector etc.. Make sure the BIOS settings match that of the harddrive. That information should be on the harddrive.

What kind of harddrive do you have ?

Guy
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
A) First of all, you''ve been scammed, just like the rest of us. You didn''t buy a 9.8gig drive, you bought a 9,800,000,000 byte drive.

You see, Hard Drive manufacturers like to make us think that we''re getting more than we actually are, so they define their own little byte system, like this:

1 Kilobyte = 1000 Bytes
1 Megabyte = 1000 K
1 gigabyte = 1000 M

When everyone else defines memory like this:

1K = 1024B
1M = 1024K
1G = 1024M

So, in order to get the number of real gigabytes your hard drive is, you need to convert the fake Gigs to real gigs:

9,800,000,000 / 1024 = 9,570,312 kilobytes
9,570,312 / 1024 = 9346 megabytes
9346 / 1024 = 9.1 gigabytes.

So, you have a 9.1 gigabyte drive... unformatted.

Now, you need to format the drive and put a file system on it, which takes around a gig or so, depending on the drive. Even worse, you partitioned the drive into two parts, which eats up more space, because each partition needs its own file system.

And thus, you end up with slightly more than 8 gigs of space that is usable.

Gee, you lost 2 gigs, because of deceptive advertising.

My brother lost almost 10 gigs on his "80" gig drive.
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The Alchemist
The Alchemist
nononono...

i have no idea what you people talking about...

i had a 9766Mbytes HDD and i partitioned it in two... well you know the history... and i already solved it... it was realy a bios setting thing

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MOTHERSHIP!!! hahaha! very funny! now take me outta here!!!!!

[edited by - The Alchemist on June 15, 2002 2:53:41 PM]
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