The magic harddrive

[IdahoB]

Here's a fun one for you.

During a recent re-install I discovered that my 120Gb IBM disk was hiding a secret from me - it was a magic drive with magic additional space.

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Unfortunately, despite their OS superiority, Microsoft lack magical powers and so Windows was unable to sucessfully format the area. Typical.

 

[nick1985]

???

 

[GimpTG]

Um, yeah

 

[JetBlack69]

what, the 8MB space?

 

[DaTT]

isn't that 8MB reserved for boot sector, manufactuer info, etc..... All HD's have space reserved on them

 

[kuk]

Guys ... look more carefully.

 

[DaTT]

lol....didn't notice.......is that like 400 TB I see?

 

[IdahoB]

Apologies, I'm British. I just thought you'd notice it for yourselves One of the unpartitioned spaces is many terrabytes in size. Apparently.

 

[IdahoB]

You gotta love these forums - four posted replies from people who didn't even get it!

 

[JBT]

woa nice HDD you got there =)

 

[bobbyjosh]

Something don't sound right there. And that 8MB that you guys are talking about.... That's the hard drive's cache.

 

[afzan]

could you make that pic smaller?

 

[StraightPipe]

Originally posted by: IdahoB
You gotta love these forums - four posted replies from people who didn't even get it!

atleast you know you're getting good advice when you ask a question

 

[JetBlack69]

Originally posted by: afzan
could you make that pic smaller?

No kidding, I could barely read it.

 

[DaTT]

Originally posted by: bobbyjosh
And that 8MB that you guys are talking about.... That's the hard drive's cache.

No its not

 

[IdahoB]

lol... sorry - I took it with the camera on my mobile, which is pretty sucky at best.

 

[Twista]

photochopped!



















yep!


j/k

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: bobbyjosh
Something don't sound right there. And that 8MB that you guys are talking about.... That's the hard drive's cache.

Thats one of the most retarded statements I've ever heard.

The unproportioned size happens sometimes. I remember I had a Quantum 3.2GB drive that had an "extra" 8GB.

 

[4x4expy]

How long would it take Windows to format 4000+tb of hd space anyway? By my calculations that would hold over 800million mp3's, the RIAA would love that!

 

[IdahoB]

Just think of the pr0n storage - that's enough self-abuse space to last a hundred lifetimes!