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« Reply #15 on: August 26, 2008, 06:29:10 PM » |
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I always split the drive in 2 when I build a computer for someone,It means scandisk only takes half the time when they just turn the computer off rather than shut it down.
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« Reply #16 on: August 26, 2008, 06:35:16 PM » |
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I always split the drive in 2 when I build a computer for someone,It means scandisk only takes half the time when they just turn the computer off rather than shut it down.
LOL @ scandisk. You still inflicting Windows 95/98 on people LOL |
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« Reply #17 on: August 26, 2008, 06:53:27 PM » |
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dont shake it about, the bits from one memory wont move over to the other one, you have to kick it.
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« Reply #18 on: August 26, 2008, 07:03:08 PM » |
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Thanks for that Kin, but I only have about 5GB of pics/docks so it won't help a great deal.
5GB is a significant percentage of 30GB n'est pas? Install your software to D as people have suggested and also save your 'data' on D. Then all will be fine and dandy. You could always buy a new hardrive as well if you really wanted to. |
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« Reply #19 on: August 26, 2008, 07:05:21 PM » |
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Thanks for that Kin, but I only have about 5GB of pics/docks so it won't help a great deal.
5GB is a significant percentage of 30GB n'est pas? Install your software to D as people have suggested and also save your 'data' on D. Then all will be fine and dandy. You could always buy a new hardrive as well if you really wanted to. I'm buying a new lappy Kin, (Honest, as soon as I have a touch) I just wondered whay they did it like that. |
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« Reply #20 on: August 26, 2008, 07:07:27 PM » |
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for the sake of the forum then kick it!!
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« Reply #21 on: August 26, 2008, 07:20:08 PM » |
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Thanks for that Kin, but I only have about 5GB of pics/docks so it won't help a great deal.
5GB is a significant percentage of 30GB n'est pas? Install your software to D as people have suggested and also save your 'data' on D. Then all will be fine and dandy. You could always buy a new hardrive as well if you really wanted to. I'm buying a new lappy Kin, (Honest, as soon as I have a touch) I just wondered whay they did it like that. The reason I have more than one on my computers is that I install and save everything on D: Then, if Windows gets screwed up somehow I can just nuke the C: drive and reinstall Windows without losing all my data. |
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« Reply #22 on: August 26, 2008, 07:20:56 PM » |
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FFS, someone kick their computer!
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« Reply #23 on: August 26, 2008, 07:41:18 PM » |
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I always split the drive in 2 when I build a computer for someone,It means scandisk only takes half the time when they just turn the computer off rather than shut it down.
LOL @ scandisk. You still inflicting Windows 95/98 on people LOL I still call it scandisk  , does the error checker actually have a name on XP? I dont get involved in vista,till my brother breaks his new laptop. |
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« Reply #24 on: August 26, 2008, 07:51:32 PM » |
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Why does it have two Drives?
I may be wrong - I'm not as 'up' on these things as I used to be, but the PC possibly came with Win98 which means it utilised the FAT32 (I'm currently using FAT44) file system which could only cope with a maximum of 32GB in one partition - hence the need to partition larger disks into useable chunks. With the advent of the NTFS file system of Windows NT, XP & Vista this limitation no longer exists and I believe I'm right in saying that disks upto 2 TB (Terabytes - GB x 1000) can be accomodated in one partition. |
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« Reply #25 on: August 26, 2008, 09:47:09 PM » |
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« Reply #26 on: August 26, 2008, 10:05:01 PM » |
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You need some partition software to merge the 2 drives ( which are actually one physical drive) you will then not lose any data and programs will be moved without damage
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« Reply #27 on: August 27, 2008, 04:16:48 PM » |
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Turn your base unit upside down, it will then start saving data at the other side of the partition as default.
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« Reply #28 on: August 27, 2008, 04:26:02 PM » |
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Turn your base unit upside down, it will then start saving data at the other side of the partition as default.
what about if i just push it onto it's side? |
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« Reply #29 on: August 27, 2008, 04:41:30 PM » |
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Turn your base unit upside down, it will then start saving data at the other side of the partition as default.
what about if i just push it onto it's side? You could do that with a BBC Micro, because it had Sideways address space. |
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