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Question about Hard-Disks

Zenoth

Zenoth

Diamond Member
Hi.

It's something I'm wondering about.

Let's pretend the following:

The Hard-Disk Drive in question has no Operating System installed on it. Only misc data (a general purpose D: Drive in other words). The Drive has a capacity of 40 GB, and is currently empty. There is (let's pretend it) one single file to download and put on the Drive. But the file is 41 GB.

So, take that example into consideration and, please, tell me what would happen if there is "too much" data to download for the HDD's capacity. Anyone know ?

Is there any message saying something similar to "not enough space" ? Would anything shut down ? Such as the OS, the Drive itself, or perhaps the Internet connection ?

Just curious.

Oh and, by the above I meant that the 41 GB file would be in a downloading process. To fill the Drive. It's at the "end of the Drive's capacity" that I'm wondering...what would happen, because the download would want to continue, for example.
 
You'll end up with an error like you'd get if you tried to put 2 MB on a floppy diskette. Something along the lines of "the disk is full". The dowload would most likely abort, too, because the file would be incomplete. Unless, of course, you're using a D/L manager like Download Accelerator. You could, theoretically, take the parts of the file it already downloaded, put them on a bigger hard drive, and "resume" the download.

I don't think you need to worry about your computer/OS crashing because you're not filling up the primary partition on the master drive.

Please let us know what happens if you do decide to try it, for future reference. Hope this helps.
 
Thanks TexDotCom !

Gives me a better idea now.

And, no I'm not the one who is going to try that. But I know someone who is usually downloading stuff when he is at his job, or somewhere else, but not home. Not sure if he has a download manager though. Maybe.

But yesterday I told him as a joke that he would end up arriving home one day with the system shut off, and a bunch of HDD pieces scattered in the tower. Hehe. And he said "actually...I don't even know what would happen".

That's where the question comes from.

But I'm curious. Perhaps I'll try that this month. I got that old 5200 Rpm 20 GB HDD from Matrox I think. I don't mind loosing it if something happens. I'll post the result here if I ever try.

Thanks again !
 
No prob. Even though it would make me look foolish if the disk did explode, it would make for some great pics.

😉
 
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