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Goonboon
08-31-2004, 02:31 AM
Hello everyone,

While ago I was cruisin’ the Internet and ran into a pretty neat site that talked about tips with windows xp and several other unique computer tips. One was very interesting...

The ability to basically "uncap hard-drives" using partitioning techniques. The article was very fascinating because people were able to take like 10 gig hard drives and turn them into like 80 gigs or something like that... (some exaggeration) but the technique they used was creating couple small partitions and doing something not sure if it was with firmware or what. They said this could be unstable and so one and so forth. Basically I have some old hard drives I want to play around with but man I can't find that website again. I knew I should of bookmarked it. :mad:

Has anyone seen this article before and if so could you post a link to it?:eek:

Thank You,
Goon

malcore
08-31-2004, 03:09 AM
10 to 80 gigs is more than "some" exaggeration, that's a lot of exaggeration.;) Seems the bigger the hard drive the higher the ratio of increase is.

For what it's worth: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14597

Goonboon
08-31-2004, 05:20 AM
Malcore... YOU RULE!

That's the article I was looking for! Wonder what some IBM 15 and 16 gig hard drives will yield??? I really don't care what happens to them they are right now used as data storage.

Thanks for your quick reply.

I'll post the results after I test this :)

Thanks again!

Goon

:D