double capacity of your drive!!??

[Falloutboy]

ok was browsing thru HardOCP this morning and I found this
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14597

I first thought yeah this is a joke. but one guy on HARDOCP forums has got 19gb out of a 10gb HD. no one else has atempted yet. I was woundering if this could be for real?? I cant beleave this has never been found up till today if its true. if it is true I think storage just got a hell of alot cheaper.

 

[Homerboy]

I read this at the inquirer.... you try first.
Make sure you use irreplaceable data.

 

[fs5]

link

that's the hardforum thread.. IceDigger is running more tests including filling up both partitions with data and see if they get corrupted

 

[AFB]

Fixed

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: Falloutboy525
ok was browsing thru HardOCP this morning and I found this


I first thought yeah this is a joke. but one guy on HARDOCP forums has got 19gb out of a 10gb HD. no one else has atempted yet. I was woundering if this could be for real?? I cant beleave this has never been found up till today if its true. if it is true I think storage just got a hell of alot cheaper.

use [ l=text] and [/l ] for links

 

[Brutuskend]

cool, I have a 60 gigger coming back from RMA, I'll try this when it shows up!

 

[Falloutboy]

keep us updated if it works I'm going to try it on my 30gig and if that work good for a mounth of use I'm moving on to the rest of my 120gb

 

[bunker]

Hmmmmmm

 

[psyconius]

This has to be impossible

 

[mugs]

Why risk it? What's the point? Hard drive space is dirt cheap these days. Pretty much the only way to fill 120 GB drive is with digital media. If you have that many pirated TV shows on your computer, buy a DVD burner.

 

[Falloutboy]

beleave me if I could afford it I would have no problem filling up a terabyte. I'm at right now 700gigs including about 400gig on dvd of media files.

 

[psyconius]

I agree.. For my new box I am only going 80gig(and that is just because most 80giggers only cost a few bucks more than the 60's), and I will have a 40gig and a 20gig on a spare box for media

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: mugsywwiii
Why risk it? What's the point? Hard drive space is dirt cheap these days. Pretty much the only way to fill 120 GB drive is with digital media. If you have that many pirated TV shows on your computer, buy a DVD burner.

But I don't like discs. I have a dvd burner too. I like to keep images of all my cd's on a partition in case I ever lose the cd. That plus all the files I need should I reformat such as drivers, windows updates and such take up a good 70 gb's. Music, Anime, photos from my digital cameras take up another good 50. I just like having access to everything without having to swap discs. Got like 6 virtual drives with images so I can play whatever game I want too without finding the discs.

 

[StageLeft]

Can I double a 10 to a 20, then keep doubling until I have a 5 terabyte drive?!

 

[psyconius]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Can I double a 10 to a 20, then keep doubling until I have a 5 terabyte drive?!

That's about as feasible as this whole idea working to begin with =P

 

[Pepsi90919]

bwahahahaha those morons

 

[psyconius]

From Hardforum:

quote:
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Commenting on an article you posted today about hidden hard drive space. It was brought to my attention from a link to it from HardOCP.

What is happening is that Norton Ghost creates a virtual partition on the drive, and the data for that virtual partition resides on one of the existing partitions. So as more data is added on the virtual partition, a file on the normal drive partition expands as well.

It's kind of like a disk image which is being mounted to a drive letter. All the data for it is still on the primary partition.

Hopefully that's clear enough to explain what is happening here. The extra virtual partition basically is defined as the amount of freespace on the partition to which the that virtual partition file actually resides.

In short: No miracle space here, don't bother the hard drives manufactures. Just using a feature in ghost in a weird way, but with no real benifits other than being able to boot a disk image without reszing all the partitions on your drive.

Peace

Matt


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[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
bwahahahaha those morons

Can't hurt to try, at minimum it's a bug in Ghost.

Viper GTS

 

[Reel]

It is true. I used it on a floppy disk. It is now a 2MB floppy disk!!!!

 

[bandana163]

Overclocking and tuning = my life.
I've already enabled the +50MB on my 650MB CDs.
My 19" monitor runs at 22". I've also unlocked 42 hidden keys on my 102 key keyboard. My GF3 is flashed to 9800pro.

My other specs:
Stereo speakers@ Klipsch 7.1
Abit IS7@IC7-MAX3
P4C2800@A64
2x120GB HDDS @ 2x576GB


Seriously, if you expect your 200GB HDD to really be a 510GB one, you need to go to bed or jump (!) immediately.

 

[Falloutboy]

looking more an more like something is fishy but hopefully the few that are trying it out at HardOCP get some final resualts by this evening

 

[KokomoGST]

Hmm... bug in Ghost. But yeah, HD space is cheap these days... I have a 60GB 5400rpm just sitting around. Gotta find an enclosure for it I guess.

 

[Rainsford]

Originally posted by: Vaerilis
Overclocking and tuning = my life.
I've already enabled the +50MB on my 650MB CDs.
My 19" monitor runs at 22". I've also unlocked 42 hidden keys on my 102 key keyboard. My GF3 is flashed to 9800pro.

My other specs:
Stereo speakers@ Klipsch 7.1
Abit IS7@IC7-MAX3
P4C2800@A64
2x120GB HDDS @ 2x576GB


Seriously, if you expect your 200GB HDD to really be a 510GB one, you need to go to bed or jump (!) immediately.

Heh, funny stuff

 

[Falloutboy]

This is a quote from another forum from a user who tried it:

"Pretty much as I figured and others have stated it appears to make a bogus partition. I applied the technique to an 80 gig drive and started to fill up the "new" partition with about 16 gigs worth of files from another physical drive. After completion of the copying process, explorer locked up tight with a memory error and even task manager crapped out (I tried to manually re-launch explorer). So I next rebooted the machine entirely, only to be presented with a file corruption error. It's pretty clear to me that writing to the "new" partiton is simply overwriting existing data on the original partition..."

 

[Ameesh]

i used it on my 120 gb harddrive and now its only 60 gb