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 Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:18 am Post subject: What's wrong with my Hard Drives? |
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I've been using my old computer for almost a year and I only had one 140gig Hard Drive but when I opened it up I found 2 160gig Hard Drives.
Can anyone please explain this for me?
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DURAN
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:20 am Post subject: |
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| where's the picture?
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:21 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I'm not helping until i get pictures.
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Hero
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:27 am Post subject: |
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| 149gb = 160gb HDD. Its how windows reads it. I just got through with a thread asking this on the steam forums. 149gb is the same as 160gb.
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Benji
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:36 am Post subject: |
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Why would you need pictures?
@Hero
Thanks, but what could be wrong with the other Hard Drive? I doubt it's broken and every cable was connected...
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| Spanito wrote: | | Hero wrote: | | 149gb = 160gb HDD. Its how windows reads it. I just got through with a thread asking this on the steam forums. 149gb is the same as 160gb. |
>149gb is the same as 160gb. |
Windows reads it as binary, and providers sell it using regular math. God Viral, just when I thought you had a brain, you prove me wrong yet again.
It says 149GB, but it has the correct capacity. As for the other, START>rightclick my computer>manage>Disk management. I am betting the drive is not formatted and has no file format.
To be more clear. The HDD makers class the HDD as 160gb. 1gb =1000MB. Windows reads 1gb as 1024mb. Its the same with ram. You have 160gb, its just showing smaller because instead of 1000mb each is 1024.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:07 am Post subject: |
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| Benji wrote: | | Why would you need pictures? @Hero Thanks, but what could be wrong with the other Hard Drive? I doubt it's broken and every cable was connected... |
Take the harddrive to a computer store let them test it for you, I doubt you have the equipment to do so yourself.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:09 am Post subject: |
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| Hero wrote: | | Spanito wrote: | | Hero wrote: | | 149gb = 160gb HDD. Its how windows reads it. I just got through with a thread asking this on the steam forums. 149gb is the same as 160gb. |
>149gb is the same as 160gb. |
Windows reads it as binary, and providers sell it using regular math. God Viral, just when I thought you had a brain, you prove me wrong yet again.
It says 149GB, but it has the correct capacity. As for the other, START>rightclick my computer>manage>Disk management. I am betting the drive is not formatted and has no file format.
To be more clear. The HDD makers class the HDD as 160gb. 1gb =1000MB. Windows reads 1gb as 1024mb. Its the same with ram. You have 160gb, its just showing smaller because instead of 1000mb each is 1024. |
Thanks, I'll rep you when I have a post count of 15 again.
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Hero
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:18 am Post subject: |
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| Safko wrote: | | Benji wrote: | | Why would you need pictures? @Hero Thanks, but what could be wrong with the other Hard Drive? I doubt it's broken and every cable was connected... |
Take the harddrive to a computer store let them test it for you, I doubt you have the equipment to do so yourself. |
There is no need safko my friend. Depending on what brand it is, each hard drive maker has their own tool. I used WD data lifeguard. I found out, my netbook BSOD'd so much on windows 7 because the hard drive was faulty. Replaced it and now it never bsods.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 11:35 am Post subject: |
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Another possible reason is the hard drive is set in RAID mode, or in your case "mirroring".
Mirroring takes 2 hard drives (same size is preferred) and whatever you do is automatically copied to the other much like a reflection (mirroring).
With this setup, you will only see 1 hard drive in My Computer, but accessing Disk Management will show 2 physical drives.
Mirroring is only for hardware failures such as if 1 drive is kaput, you can still have the other to take its place, but if a OS is corrupted or virus infections, then these problems will automatically be affected on both drives.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| kls85 wrote: | Another possible reason is the hard drive is set in RAID mode, or in your case "mirroring".
Mirroring takes 2 hard drives (same size is preferred) and whatever you do is automatically copied to the other much like a reflection (mirroring).
With this setup, you will only see 1 hard drive in My Computer, but accessing Disk Management will show 2 physical drives.
Mirroring is only for hardware failures such as if 1 drive is kaput, you can still have the other to take its place, but if a OS is corrupted or virus infections, then these problems will automatically be affected on both drives. |
Maybe it's because I had Hyperthreading?
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Hero
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Benji wrote: | | kls85 wrote: | Another possible reason is the hard drive is set in RAID mode, or in your case "mirroring".
Mirroring takes 2 hard drives (same size is preferred) and whatever you do is automatically copied to the other much like a reflection (mirroring).
With this setup, you will only see 1 hard drive in My Computer, but accessing Disk Management will show 2 physical drives.
Mirroring is only for hardware failures such as if 1 drive is kaput, you can still have the other to take its place, but if a OS is corrupted or virus infections, then these problems will automatically be affected on both drives. |
Maybe it's because I had Hyperthreading? |
Hyper threading has nothing to do with the hard drive. Thats a thing the cpu does.
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| Hero wrote: | Windows reads it as binary, and providers sell it using regular math. God Viral, just when I thought you had a brain, you prove me wrong yet again.
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"Binary" and "regular math" nice try, but not quite. A "GB" on a hard drive label refers to a Gigabyte, which is 1,000 MB, whereas a "GB" in windows is referring to Gibibytes, or 1,024 MB.
God Hero, just when I thought you had a brain, you prove me wrong yet again.
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| Hero wrote: | | 149gb = 160gb HDD. Its how windows reads it. I just got through with a thread asking this on the steam forums. 149gb is the same as 160gb. |
no, it's read like that because that's what it is
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| slovach wrote: | | Hero wrote: | | 149gb = 160gb HDD. Its how windows reads it. I just got through with a thread asking this on the steam forums. 149gb is the same as 160gb. |
no, it's read like that because that's what it is |
When you download a program 1000mb = 1gb. a hard drive reads a gb as 1024mb. Thats how it is. If you took 24mb off each gb you would equate up to 160gb. Thats how it is, don't like it, change the world.
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