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And no, that's not his available free space. That's the total space on the drive.
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quote:Nothing beats a 2 * 120GB drive redundancy.
it depends on what type of RAID system you are using. some types split the data evenly between both drives, so if one dies you lose all the data on both.
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Luckily, the only hard drive failure I've ever had was just after it was backed up and reformatted. The company that performed the backup took it back and restored the info to a new drive free of charge- even though it wasn't related to the process of the backup at all.
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Akb, does your HP printer come with software that lets you align the cartrages? Try running that and if not... seek professional help.
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quote:Originally posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge: Akb, does your HP printer come with software that lets you align the cartrages? Try running that and if not... seek professional help.
Um yeah it does. Didn't you see my previous post? I've bought a new printer that's better and faster than my old one. I am now in the process of selling my spare cartridge. Thanks for the advice though.
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Sorry, I was running on caffine and sleep deprevation when I wrote that...
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quote:Originally posted by Topher: A friend of mine has a pooched HD, too. And his computer is only a few months old... half a year at most. He was trying to copy a CD for his sister and everything went to hell. His drive went from a 20 GB to a 2 GB, inexplicably.
It is likely that your friend changed the filesystem of that HD from a FAT32 to a FAT16. I was told that FAT16 does not support drives > 2 GB or something like that.
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He didn't change the file system. He didn't fill it up with 18 GB of stuff. It just decreased in size for no apparent reason... When he tried to format, he got error messages about it being mounted and in use. Beats the hell out of me.
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I got a really shitty CPU in my room. I got in 1999 and the only thing wrong with is 2 things: The A-Drive is incompatiable with the standard A-Drives because its a 'Super' drive. And 2 is just far slower and less memory that what is needed these days. I would buy a new one, but for what reason? So my younger brother after I leave for boot camp fries it 2 weeks later after trying to download thirty thousand porno movies off the internet?
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I think that's the first time I've ever known someone to say "A-drive", like it was synonymous w/ "floppy drive".
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"When he tried to format, he got error messages about it being mounted and in use. Beats the hell out of me."
Did he try and format it in DOS? Did he try and format it in DOS after using a boot disk?
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I'm leaning towards the 16-bit filesystem explaination. Two gigs is the limit for such a system, and that's just too much of a coincidence for me to swallow.
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I call it A Drive for a few reasons, one everyone knows what I am talking about when I do day that, its like they going to think about a car or something. Two, on all the computers I own, its always called the A drive, I never label my drives because then I would start calling them Greg drives or Jeff drives (Me and my bro). Third, I am into computers, when someone talks or writes to me about computers, I look at it like a foreigh lanuage. I only know that my computer is old, ancient in the terms of computer geeks, (hell 2 months is too old for a computer these days).
I get yelled at Best Buy for not knowing anything about a computer, telling me to go buy another computer or put in a disk burning drive or something by these a-holes who think they know everything. I gave them the finger, told them to go to hell, because I ain't paying for another computer just because my computer is old. It works fine for me, with a broken 'floppy' drive.
Sorry, this morning I had to deel with Best Buy assholes. My plan was to rip out the grey cords that connect to the 'Super' Drive and replace it with a standard one, which earlier my computer genious cousin said I could, and they tell me to go buy a $200 drive because its cool...
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quote:Originally posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge: Sorry, I was running on caffine and sleep deprevation when I wrote that...
No worries mate. I've been able to swap my old cartridges for some new ones with a guy at the college where my mum works. We're also gonna take the printer to a shop to see if they can actually fix it. If they can, it goes to my sister. If not, it goes in the bin and the college get the partially used cartridges. All in all, I'm still better off as my new printer is soooooooooooooooo kewl!
Now go and get some much needed sleep Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge!
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Well, the thing is, a floppy drive is not necessarily the A: drive. For one thing, that letter-naming scheme exists on a Windows- or MS-DOS-based system, but not on Unix or MacOS, or various others. And even on an MS machine, it's only called the A: drive if it's the first one. If you have two floppy drives, the second one is going to be the B: drive. Back in the day, I remember having a 5.25" A: drive and a 3.5" B: drive.
Unfortunately, most people today are running Windows and have only everseen one kind of floppy disk (and not many people would have two 3.5" drives in a single computer), so many people have probably come to think of "A: drive" as the proper term for any floppy drive. I'd just never seen anyone actually display such a belief before.
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Didn't you see my previous post? I've bought a new printer that's better and faster than my old one. I am now in the process of selling my spare cartridge. Thanks for the advice though. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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