Hard Drive

yUDi · Post by **yUDi** » 23 Aug 2003, 23:10

My second hard drive has 16MB of unallocated space when checked in disk manager. What is this? How do i reallocate it.

butterfly · Post by **butterfly** » 24 Aug 2003, 00:59

You can't allocate it, it is reserved for the operating system. On NTFS, the size is 8Mb

yUDi · Post by **yUDi** » 24 Aug 2003, 01:06

I am using NTFS.
Thanks anyway.

Hyperchild · Post by **Hyperchild** » 24 Aug 2003, 12:10

Try Partition Magic, tho why you want to recover 16MB, I dunno, you cant do much with it

Post by **OnlyOneKenobi** » 24 Aug 2003, 13:05

Yeah 16Mb aint much... maybe 3 mp3's or so worth of space... hehe.

LordRage · Post by **LordRage** » 24 Aug 2003, 18:45

yeah I must say 16MB aint worth fussing about...

BUT windows had set 5GB of my HDD space to system restore and I wondered why i had run out of space! Anyway I set it down to 1 gig and now yay 4 more gigs!

nuf · Post by **nuf** » 25 Aug 2003, 08:11

I remember my dads good old ?86 with 20MB hard drive. Damb we could get a lot on there, until the first 10MB game came out.....that was huge.

butterfly · Post by **butterfly** » 30 Aug 2003, 15:09

I still have an old 5Mb hard drive lying around somewhere

Its being used as a doorstopper at the moment

Gawd, you see how huge this thing is, I keep tripping over it

LordRage · Post by **LordRage** » 30 Aug 2003, 15:34

I have a 120MB drive, but it sux, its soooo slow its not funny!

Dragoneyes · Post by **Dragoneyes** » 30 Aug 2003, 16:18

I had about 13 years back the top of the range PC with a 40meg HD
belive me I was one of the boys hey

LordRage · Post by **LordRage** » 30 Aug 2003, 16:44

So what do you have now?

butterfly · Post by **butterfly** » 30 Aug 2003, 16:53

LordRage wrote:So what do you have now?

A 15Gig and a 20Gig hard drive. I've fixed his PC a few times already

I myself have a 30Gig and a 120Gig, both Maxtors

LordRage · Post by **LordRage** » 30 Aug 2003, 16:58

Oh, I am shamed, I have a 40GB Seagate (7200RPM obviously).

I want an 80 gb Maxtor next (8MB cache)

butterfly · Post by **butterfly** » 30 Aug 2003, 17:15

I use the 30gig 7200rpm ATA133 for the OS and the 120gig 7200rpm ATA133 8Mb for all the data like MP3's etc.

LordRage · Post by **LordRage** » 30 Aug 2003, 17:16

thats what I wanna do (except with a 40 and 80)

STaLK3R · Post by **STaLK3R** » 30 Aug 2003, 17:18

I have the WD 1200 caviar 120 GB HD

butterfly · Post by **butterfly** » 30 Aug 2003, 17:56

Rectron carries the Maxtor 80GB ATA133 7200RPM 8MB Cache model for about R1000-00

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