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Recovering Secret HD Space
An anonymous reader writes "Just browsing hardocp.com and noticed a link to this article.
'The Inquirer has posted a method of getting massive amounts of hard drive space from your current drive. Supposedly by following the steps outlined, they have gotten 150GB from an 80GB EIDE drive, 510GB from a 200GB SATA drive and so on.' Could this be true? I'm not about to try with my hard drive." Needless to say, this might be a time to avoid the bleeding edge. (See Jeff Garzik's warning in the letters page linked from the Register article.)
No you fool, don't tell them yet! This is all part of my incredibly ingenious plan to get all the script kiddies and spammers in the world to follow these instructions to "enlarge" their three inch hard disks and corrupt all of their data in the process. Nobody remotely knowledgeable about computers would ever believe this, and nobody who knows nothing about computers would possibly attempt to do this. Who does this leave? Yes, the script kiddies and spammers. Now it's back to Plan B, sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads.
What, me worry?
Gain upto 300-600 more gigs. Your lover will be happy. Risk fre.....wait....lol.
Sorry.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
Some drives are known to short stroke their platters.
Is that what kids are calling it nowadays?
Be sure to use similarly advanced techniques to "defraggle" your hard drive.
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I saw the article title and I was very excited. I've bought many hard drives, and just recently I bought a 160 gig drive (was like $80 too after a mail in rebate, Fry's I love you...) and was about to buy a 250 ($110 after rebate, Fry's, still love you.) But then I figured, well if I do buy the 250, it's going to be able to hold around 200 gigs, and for some reason 50 gigs will be gone without a trace. I think there's 30 gigs missing on my 160 too, I've noticed this on a lot of drives (as drive sizes go up, so does the missing space.)
I thought this would actually let you use up that lost space somehow, you did buy the drive, it should contain the space, but it doesn't. RAM is just the opposite, you buy 512, it has 560 or so, well any ram I bought did. Anyway, is their a way to recover this lost space? Is their something I'm doing wrong? It seems to be worse in linux (but I heard that's cause it reserves space for root to access.)
Oh come *on* people.
Almost every slashdotter wants to find new and interesting ways to hose their data.
Its only natural.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
unless the disks were secretly, specifically designed this way.
for example, for the benefit of spooks who want the device to maintain a rolling log of disk data for some period of time after the unsuspecting user thinks it's been deleted/reformatted/security-wiped.
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I'm suprised with all the comments from people who DON'T want to try it out. This is SLASHDOT! Come on don't we all have dozens of 512MB hard drives? Or even some old 10 gig drive that you found in some computer while you were dumpster diving?
The guy who wrote this article is definately the same guy who is sending the "add 3 inches to your hard disk" SPAM.
(A.K.A The Song of Failing Disks)
Ten little gigabytes, waiting on line
one caught a virus, then there were nine.
Nine little gigabytes, holding just the date,
someone jammed a write protect, then there were eight.
Eight little gigabytes, should have been eleven,
then they cut the budget, now there are seven.
Seven little gigabytes, involved in mathematics
stored an even larger prime, now there are six.
Six little gigabytes, working like a hive,
one died of overwork, now there are five.
Five little gigabytes, trying to add more
plugged in the wrong lead, now there are four.
Four little gigabytes, failing frequently,
one used for spare parts, now there are three.
Three little gigabytes, have too much to do
service man on holiday, now there are two.
Two little gigabytes, badly overrun,
took the work elsewhere, now just need one.
One little gigabyte, systems far too small
shut the whole thing down, now there's none at all.
I j5st tried thiJ out wi_* my MAXTOR 80YB 7&00 RPM hard dFDve. It's ju7t amazifg; it says that I have over 200 GB unfoFGatted, with almosF 190 GB for3atted. I'm sure that the risks are all overstated. Who needs Gga3 for error correcGion and bad blocks, or whatever. It's just paranoia. If you want mor6 stFrage space, go try this out right sgrGREG][2fFS3g4
Wh47 d1d j00 541, 31337 15n't t3h r0xor5 ne m0r3???
I'm here to protect you from the terrible secret of space.
I have been pwned because my
fdisk (on a Windows machine - I dunno the Linux equivalent).
er, fdisk
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And not even I believe this one.
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I initially misread your post as "enlarge their three inch hard dicks". From the crap that my mail server blocks, the spammers have been trying to enlarge their three inch hard dicks for a long time...
'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'
I once made a floppy that reported its size as 4 gigs, back when hard drives couldnt even reach 1. :P ;)
It's pretty easy to set your hard drive to whatever "size" you want it to be... just dont expect it to work properly
Having said that, there were a few proggies floating around back then that could make your floppies slightly larger by formatting them with a weird, non-standard configuration.
You could do wonderful things with them, from 1.7-1.8 meg floppies, that were a bit slower and less reliable, to some magic 1.22 meg format that mysteriously made my floppies faster.
Ahh, those were the days
I have very *ahem* fond memories of spending the whole day formatting and copying Civ2 to 96 floppies... ouch!
Yeah, it works.. I just tried it and it seems to b##0"#,##0;\-""#,##0 ""#,##0.00;\-""#,##0.00# ,##0.00;]\-""#,##0.005 * ,##0.00;]\-""#,##0.005 * ,##0.00;]\-""#,##0.005 *
Ok.. so what you do is you heat up your soldering iron and you burn a small hole in the corner of the disk. This will cause the bios to detect massive amounts of free disk space. and best of all... it is completely reliable storage!
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mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt1 /dev/hdb1 /mnt1 /mnt2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt2
mkdir
mount
mkdir
mount
Tada! now when you `df` you'll have twice as much total space!
I played a practical joke on my friends back in my high school programming course. Back in the DOS days, Norton had a tool where you could mess with the data stored on the FAT table. I came to school with a floppy that had reported it had over a gigabyte of free space. Heh it was funny watching their eyes get big. Sadly, there were no females around to demonstrate my technological prowess.
"Derp de derp."
I've been getting faster rotational speeds since I opened up my HD and removed the "dummy" platters.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Is this the first tech info virus ? Follow instructions to destroy your own HD. Seems like just putting a hammer through it would be easier, but it would probably work with the clueless. Hmmm, yeah not a bad idea I guess in a very twisted way.
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In other news:
:P
Users report that 486to586.exe actually works.
"It works, it really works", "My machine feels much faster" was some of the comments from the happy users.
Karma whoring: But after some investigation, it was identified as a renamed copy of loadlin.exe
I've discovered a method to turn a single processor computer into a dual processor machine! First go into the BIOS and turn Hyper-Threading on. Finish booting the system. Now get a hacksaw. Hit reboot and quickly saw the processor in half. Before the system restarts, kill the power. Take the left half of the CPU and put it in the second processor slot. Start the system again and everything should be working wonderfully!
Or perhaps one of the few times a comment deserves +5?
Could also be a misspelling of "Aural density". The measure of the amount of bullshit in any given sentence.
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1.7-1.8 meg floppies, that were a bit slower and less reliable,
You made floppies even slower and less reliable I wouldn't have thought that was even possible. Obviously some kind of WORN file system (Write Once Read Never!)
Really?
Personally I thought that the people who sugessted "Mebi" were taken out back and given a good kicking, and the rest of us sane people who understood the word context continued using mega knowing that we meant 1024 when refering to computers.
We also realised that the hard disk manufacturers would continue to use out of context numbers but feel that they may one day have to change due to the ever inceasing discrepency making them look stupid.
But maybe that's just me?
+----------------- | What is the question!
CDROMs use constant data rate by varying the RPM of the drive depending on where you're located
I can vouch for the fact that the RPM is greater in the heady latitudes of the UK. People living nearer to the equator will experience slightly longer seek times, and I wonder if those in places like Barrow AK & North Norway actually appreciate the extra performance.
Maybe someone from New Zealand or nearby could chime in and verify that there data is read from the drive in the opposite direction.
You forgot areole density. That's two per person, unless the carnival is in town.
(Aw crud, maybe four per person. Dictionary.com wants to call part of the Iris an areole...)
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Yeah, and further...If Western Digital HAD a 510GB drive, you can bet your ass they'd market it and not keep it crippled!
That'd be the biggest single consumer drive on the market.
It's a mis-spelling of oreo-density; how many portions of breakfast cereal you can get in a single serving.
Being from Australia, yes, we do read the information backwards. And it is stored in memory backwards. For example, lets say I have the number 0x2244 it is written on the disk as 0x4422. And, even more amazing is if we look at the number 0xffff, it can sometimes be read backwards, forwards, or randomly, giving the values:
0xffff, 0xffff, and 0xffff. But, we get no errors.
(Hear are some replys for you consideration:
- Isn't Australia part of New Zealand?
- Isn't New Zealand part of Australia?
- That is the lamest piece of shit I have ever
read.
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
And didja know you can re-zip all your zip files to make the ONE QUARTER their original size?!?!
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It has a non-GPL compliant license though. Pity.
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It could also be "areole density." Which has a rather titillating definition.
Ahem.
-- I thought hard drives in Australia had to be installed upside down.
-- I read your post backwards, you insensitive clod.
-- You must be new around here, in Australia your hard drive reads you.
-- Imagine a beaowulf cluster of Australia bits!
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Aureal density explained.
a high aureal density is those dark nipples and
a low aureal density is those bright pink nipples.
Right?
I had an idea for increasing the size of your hard drive by on average 50%. See, everything is stored in binary, 0's and 1's. But maybe, just maybe, you could use the lowercase o instead of a 0. Check it out, it's smaller: o0. About 50% as far as I can tell. So use o's instead of 0's and voila, more space.
Everything is replaceable, the trick is it's not very easily replaceable. I've spent years filling my disks with porn, and to lose all that would be devistating.
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