dumb computer ?

[dr_zero]

As a rule the advertised size is never the actual physical size because of differences in binary and decimal system... the binary is what is there but the marketers use the decimal so in general just multiply the marketed size by .925 and you'll have a good idea of how much actual size you will have. So 299 is about right for a supposed 320gb drive

He is spot on!

The hard drive manufacturer calculated the space as 320,000,000,000 bytes
However 1,000,000,000 bytes does not equal 1 gb.
1 gb = 1024 mb
1 mb = 1024 kb
1 kb = 1024 bytes
1,073,741,824 bytes = 1 gb
320,000,000,000 bytes = ~ 298.02 gb

 

[jann1033]

He is spot on!

The hard drive manufacturer calculated the space as 320,000,000,000 bytes
However 1,000,000,000 bytes does not equal 1 gb.
1 gb = 1024 mb
1 mb = 1024 kb
1 kb = 1024 bytes
1,073,741,824 bytes = 1 gb
320,000,000,000 bytes = ~ 298.02 gb

sneaky so once again "contents may appear to be less than full " huh

so would serial ata = sata? the only ide stuff i see ( i think) is the dvd burner( brain is fried from trying to put together furniture that has wood that splits when you breath on it, wonder what else can i do to make sure i go nuts today i have no patience left)

 

[dr_zero]

sneaky so once again "contents may appear to be less than full " huh

so would serial ata = sata? the only ide stuff i see ( i think) is the dvd burner( brain is fried from trying to put together furniture that has wood that splits when you breath on it, wonder what else can i do to make sure i go nuts today i have no patience left)

Are you looking inside?

If so does the board match this picture?

The wide blue plug is the IDE the smaller are the SATA

 

[dburg30]

my computer has the hard drive gbs sectioned down as 2 hard drives, one with programs on it ( duh) one with nothing on it yet..am i better to use both drives or just one till it's full then use the other. i was considering moving pse, as well as putting lightroom and my new photos on the empty one and using the other one for non photo stuff...good or bad or doesn't make any difference whatsoever? i might save my jpgs or my raw files (once i am done editing them)on an external drive so i can get to them but they won't take up space so i would basically be keeping what i am working with or what i have on zen on the hard drive( the now empty one)

If it's just one drive it wont matter. If it blows up, the whole drive is shot anyway, doesnt matter what's where... Now as stated, if it's partitioned for the OS that's another issue.

I usually have 2 or 3 drives (at least) in my computer. 1 for windows and programs. One for my fun stuff.. games etc etc, and one for pictures, videos etc etc..

 

[jann1033]

i haven't opened it yet...took the easy way out and called hp and asked them it is 2 hard drives and i am guessing the sata, they are called hitachi hdp#####gla scsi according to the system info on the diagnostic tool page..i also found a whole guide that tells you how to add a hard drive memory etc...incase i ever decide to try it. so far i haven't even cleaned my sensor so don't hold your breath

 

[dr_zero]

i haven't opened it yet..incase i ever decide to try it. so far i haven't even cleaned my sensor so don't hold your breath

LOL I will crack open a pc anytime vs cleaning the sensor it still scares me LOL

Get you a external backup drive and be done with it LOL The one I got backs up the folders I selected automatically for me in case I forget.

 

[jann1033]

while i'm on the dumb computer ?s what is the sense of backing it up...if it fails what good would the back up do..that plus the shortage of space is what makes me always use disks to backup photos to. i don't really back up anything else since, well if i loose my best scrabble totals, big deal i do do restore points

 

[dr_zero]

while i'm on the dumb computer ?s what is the sense of backing it up...if it fails what good would the back up do..that plus the shortage of space is what makes me always use disks to backup photos to. i don't really back up anything else since, well if i loose my best scrabble totals, big deal i do do restore points

If the main HDD fails you will lose everything on that drive including your restore points and any installed or downloaded programs on that drive along with documents and email address favorites etc.


Here read this

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc137798.aspx

Complete PC Restore
Now imagine that one sunny afternoon, I decide to use my laptop while sitting by the pool. I slip on some wet tiles and my laptop dives into the pool. It's beyond repair and I have no choice but to buy a new one. Since I used the Complete PC Backup tool, I can restore my system to the new laptop—I don't have to spend a lot of time manually reinstalling each application and reconfiguring them with my personal settings. Performing a Complete PC Restore is straightforward. At startup, I use the Windows Vista installation disk to boot into the Windows Recovery Environment. Here, I am prompted to attach the device that contains the system image. I choose the appropriate image, and then the restore process begins.
After the restore is finished, I perform a file restore from my latest file backup. This is because I do file backups more frequently so the data contained in my file backup is more current. Since the computer is reverted to a time prior to the chosen file backup, it does not contain a record of this backup in the catalog. Therefore, I select Advanced restore | Restore files from a backup made on a different computer | Restore everything from this backup. I also start a new full backup to protect my newly restored data.
Windows Recovery Environment is often installed by the OEM on the hard drive as a hidden partition. This can be used for restoring a Complete PC Backup image to the same hardware. But if you need to restore an image created from one computer to another, you need to run Windows Recovery Environment from external media, such as your Windows installation disk.
There are some caveats worth considering. Complete PC Restore works simply when restoring to the same hardware the backup was taken from. (Provided, of course, that hardware failure wasn't part of your problem.)
Since Complete PC Backup includes an image of the entire computer, some restrictions apply when restoring to different hardware. First, the backup image contains drivers that are used to boot to the machine after the restore completes. In rare cases, the drivers needed to boot on the new machine might not be present. This might happen when restoring an image backup taken on one type of disk controller (IDE, SATA, or SCSI) to another type of disk controller. Even in this case, there is still a good chance you can complete the restore successfully, because the common Windows drivers included in the image backup would likely be compatible.
Second, the restore can only be performed if the new computer has at least the same number of hard drives and each hard drive is at least as big as the original it replaced. Keep these restrictions in mind if you intend to use Complete PC Backup for migrating to new hardware.
Since backup and restore are performed at the block level for entire volumes, Complete PC Restore requires a volume to be either fully restored or skipped. Therefore, you might want to create multiple volumes for backup (for instance, partitioning the system files from the data files). Then when restoring, you can choose whether to restore only the system volume (identified as critical) or all volumes.