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Hi, I am new member here need help on hard disk compression.
I have an old 30 GB hard disk, upon which was experimenting the compression techniques by making it 500GB. But it didn't work.
Can anybody please guide me how can I can make the 30GB hard disk to virtually 500GB and then load windows XP on it with partition.
Regards,
Chandan
I have an old 30 GB hard disk, upon which was experimenting the compression techniques by making it 500GB. But it didn't work.
Can anybody please guide me how can I can make the 30GB hard disk to virtually 500GB and then load windows XP on it with partition.
Regards,
Chandan
Being somewhat more knowledgeable, we've shared our facts. What you appear to be seeing is not possible. So it's one of two things:
1) User Error
2) A Windows XP glitch where it's still reading a 500GB drive installed.
Given that XP is a 13 year old operating system and is no longer supported, I'd lean more towards the latter.
-Wolf sends
1) User Error
2) A Windows XP glitch where it's still reading a 500GB drive installed.
Given that XP is a 13 year old operating system and is no longer supported, I'd lean more towards the latter.
-Wolf sends
cs7799
October 16, 2014 10:23:02 PM
Today I have re-checked the whole thing, and below is my findings:-
1. The harddisk in question installed at my friend's desktop is 30GB one (checked from both system bios as well as physically).
2. But while the system boots up in Win XP, from the device manager of xp its showing 500GB with 4 partition.
This is very strange for me too, and despite of asking he only said its a compression technique.
Being cluless I am sharing this fact here.
1. The harddisk in question installed at my friend's desktop is 30GB one (checked from both system bios as well as physically).
2. But while the system boots up in Win XP, from the device manager of xp its showing 500GB with 4 partition.
This is very strange for me too, and despite of asking he only said its a compression technique.
Being cluless I am sharing this fact here.
cs7799
October 16, 2014 8:54:12 AM
thanks guys for the reply.
But I saw the same with one of my friend, he has got a 30GB hard disk, which when boots from windows XP shows (from the system properties on win XP) 500GB hard disk capacity with two partition. Also in those partition files can be copied too.
basically looking this I was trying this experiment with my spare 30GB
But I saw the same with one of my friend, he has got a 30GB hard disk, which when boots from windows XP shows (from the system properties on win XP) 500GB hard disk capacity with two partition. Also in those partition files can be copied too.
basically looking this I was trying this experiment with my spare 30GB
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