Got a Seagate Hard Drive? Read on!

[monobrow]

Seagate have been taken to court over the definition of a gigabyte. They calculated storage as a multiple of 1 kilobyte. 1K being 1,000 bytes. However most OS's (read Microsoft OS's) recognise 1 kilobyte as 1,024 bytes.

So thats why your 80 gig drive shows up in windows as 73 gig. But as a class action suit has been filed, Seagate are paying out.

Worth 5% of the value of the drive. Although it's all in dollars.

Full story here -> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39290393,00.htm

 

[Bill Bones]

How do I know if it's a seagate? (my hard disc drive reads as 73 gig)

 

[Cooheed]

Sorry Mono, my 80Gb shows as a 30Gb. Didn't mean to hit the delete button DT_Xtremez_42:

 

[monobrow]

How do I know if it's a seagate? (my hard disc drive reads as 73 gig)

Go to....

Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager and expand the section "Disk Drives". If it starts with ST then it's a Seagate.

Sorry Mono, my 80Gb shows as a 30Gb. Didn't mean to hit the delete button DT_Xtremez_42:

Does it show you have two disks?? If it's under reading by that much then I would say you've either got it partitioned or theres a lot of unpartitioned space. Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK. That will brink up XP's built in tools, click Disk Management. You should have no unpartitioned space, but whatever you do, don't try and make your current partition bigger. It'll destroy the File Allocation Tables and effectively wipe your disk.

 

[Justacabbie]

Sorry Mono, my 80Gb shows as a 30Gb. Didn't mean to hit the delete button DT_Xtremez_42:

Sounds like you need a program like partition magic pro or similar partitioning prog. They reallocate unused space automatically, and when I got rid of a partition on my pc it was completely hassle free without messing up my operating system

 

[Scaley brat]

Sorry Mono, my 80Gb shows as a 30Gb. Didn't mean to hit the delete button DT_Xtremez_42:

Sounds like you need to rebox it and take it back....... buy a ps3 instead mate DT_Xtremez_31: DT_Xtremez_29: Soory Cooheed, I couldn't resist that DT_Xtremez_15:

Like crash and smash said. You need to get hold of a partitioning programme, there are some good shareware ones which will allow you to view your partition information. If you do have a large unpartitioned space you'll need to create a new one. I thought the original XP disk will allow you to create a new partition. Is that the case oh great and wise Ubergeeks ?

 

[monobrow]

I thought the original XP disk will allow you to create a new partition. Is that the case oh great and wise Ubergeeks ?

Certainly does, but will not add to the partition only create a second one.

 

[Cooheed]

It's a second stand alone drive, that I use to stash my muzak and other things DT_Xtremez_27:

 

[dodgysootie]

It's a second stand alone drive, that I use to stash my muzak and other things DT_Xtremez_27:

WTF are you on about you GEEKS?????
DS

 

[Cooheed]

WTF are you on about you GEEKS?????
DS

Go to bed geeker x