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| Thread ID: 58104 | 2005-05-22 01:58:00 | HDD and Motherboard competability | taly (5956) | Press F1 |
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| 357319 | 2005-05-23 06:21:00 | Nope if memory was damaged it would crash or wouldnt boot the system at all, most probably. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 357320 | 2005-05-23 06:27:00 | Hi guys! Is it possible, just theoretically, that some part of the memory is damaged? What will "property" show? Perfect disks are probably rare . IDE drives are formatted in the factory (while writing the servo tracks) and any bad sectors are mapped onto spare ones . Only the "advertised" space will be available . Formatting which you do will cause any bad areas to be marked as not available . You actuallly see this when formatting floppies . The "Properties" won't count any space which has been excluded by the formatting . That is, the capacity is what the formatter finished up with . Scandisk or Chkdsk create files to cover bad areas which they discover, so they appear as "used" . GF didn't give a complete explanation of the various "mega"s which exist . IBM started it, long ago . Theirs is 1000 kilobytes . That's 1024000 bytes . That's why a HD 3 . 5" floppy is called "1 . 44 megabytes" . It has 2880 512 byte blocks . Microsoft call it 1 . 37 MB, I think . |
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| 357321 | 2005-05-23 11:02:00 | Thanks to everybody. It was most helpfull :thumbs: | taly (5956) | ||
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