Hard Drive

[Gunny04]

Alright I have a 160 gig hard drive registering 144 gigs, 4.11 of the missing gigs was the windows partion drive wich I formated for space, but where is the other 12 gigs? is there any way too find it? Cheers, Gunny

[congo]

Any Hard Disk over 120gb creates a wormhole in the time\space continuum which tends to gobble up gigabytes in general.

It's fairly important not to let this situation develop or you could lose data on your hard disk, or worse, it could actually start devouring system ram. Check your System ram to make sure it hasn't been affected.

In extreme cases this phenomenon has been responsible for the disappearance of entire PC's, and reportedly, whole networks.

You need to report your PC to www.pc.eventhorizon.org so action can be immediately initiated before it gets out of control. This may involve the confiscation of your PC and possible criminal charges, or, at the very least, a class action suit against you if a network gets affected. Avoid the internet at all costs.

The only known remedy at this stage is to realise that megabytes are really not megabytes at all in manufacturers hard drive specifications speak. In fact, some people blame the hard disk makers for the problem in the first place, inferring that they are fibbing when they say how many bytes are actually in a megabyte.

Personally, I'm as confused as you are about this, but in practice, the drives still seem to work ok and I prefer to ignore the phenomenon in order to retain some semblance of sanity, which, is hanging by a thread at best.

[Dan]

The meaning of life, contarary to belief is not 42, but 1024.  ;)

[the_autopilot]

Any Hard Disk over 120gb creates a wormhole in the time\space continuum which tends to gobble up gigabytes in general.

It's fairly important not to let this situation develop or you could lose data on your hard disk, or worse, it could actually start devouring system ram. Check your System ram to make sure it hasn't been affected.

In extreme cases this phenomenon has been responsible for the disappearance of entire PC's, and reportedly, whole networks.

You need to report your PC to www.pc.eventhorizon.org so action can be immediately initiated before it gets out of control. This may involve the confiscation of your PC and possible criminal charges, or, at the very least, a class action suit against you if a network gets affected. Avoid the internet at all costs.

The only known remedy at this stage is to realise that megabytes are really not megabytes at all in manufacturers hard drive specifications speak. In fact, some people blame the hard disk makers for the problem in the first place, inferring that they are fibbing when they say how many bytes are actually in a megabyte.

Personally, I'm as confused as you are about this, but in practice, the drives still seem to work ok and I prefer to ignore the phenomenon in order to retain some semblance of sanity, which, is hanging by a thread at best.

Umm....Yeah...

LOL