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Originally posted by TiestoInTheMix i just backed up 40 gigs... jeez, took me like 60 goddamn cds... as i was like on the two last cds i learned that my 2-month old drive has 3 bad clusters! damn, i was able to repare them, but still, you can never trust anything. gonna install win2k soon.

What's a "Bad Cluster"? I don't really know for sure what EXACTLY a Cluster is but, here's what I THINK it is:

A fixed amount of data that is equal tho the lowest amount of data that can be saved on an HDD. If the Cluster's size is 8192-bytes, then if you put a 4000 byte file on ur HDD, it'll still take up 8192 bytes. The other 4192 bytes are just empty space.

Am I right or now? If not, explain the correct meaning/definition of a Cluster...


Thanks in advance!

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Originally posted by DJ NEILSON you only need 256Mb ram for win 2000/xp to run efficiently, its a scientific fact. any additional ram is for assisting gfx card ram, running more apps etc. (fact was learned on degree course from a dr. so its gunan ne pretty accurate)

256 ram!!!!

/me points and laughs

if you want to open more than one IE, a media player and let say Word... you'll need more than 256. I'm exagerating but trust me I end up having at least 8 windows open at all time and it eats ram.

PS: whats the fuss about getting "the facts" from Dr. All my teachers are Dr. and most of the time they don't shit about computing in 2002.

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Originally posted by ali92 What's a "Bad Cluster"? I don't really know for sure what EXACTLY a Cluster is but, here's what I THINK it is: A fixed amount of data that is equal tho the lowest amount of data that can be saved on an HDD. If the Cluster's size is 8192-bytes, then if you put a 4000 byte file on ur HDD, it'll still take up 8192 bytes. The other 4192 bytes are just empty space. Am I right or now? If not, explain the correct meaning/definition of a Cluster... Thanks in advance!

a bad cluster is a cluster on your harddrive that has stoped workin properley, normalyy due to excessive use of the drive, so it gets marked bad and no data gets written there.

Its silly question time! :D

how many bits in a byte ?

how many bytes in a kilobyte

MB = ?
GB = ?
TB = ?
PB = ?

And what is the lesson?

Partition your drives.
Keep your OS separte from your DATA. Period.
I can't count the number of the times I've lost files because I had to 'reformat' the WHOLE drive because of the OS.

One other thing you can do to make things go a LOT faster is to have a directory just for all the drivers.
Put the drivers on the 'other' drive, again, away from the OS.
Believe me, I've had to do this lots in the past...

Re: Its silly question time! :D

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Originally posted by Technaut how many bits in a byte ? how many bytes in a kilobyte MB = ? GB = ? TB = ? PB = ?

MB = 1024 kilobytes
GB = 1024 megabytes

etc

And I upgraded Win98 to XP without a problem .. I simply told it to leave the HD as FAT, not try and upgrade to NTFS. Have to say that I've never really had a problem with XP, been using it for nearly a year now...

Windows98

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Originally posted by Fir3start3r And what is the lesson? Partition your drives. Keep your OS separte from your DATA. Period. I can't count the number of the times I've lost files because I had to 'reformat' the WHOLE drive because of the OS. One other thing you can do to make things go a LOT faster is to have a directory just for all the drivers. Put the drivers on the 'other' drive, again, away from the OS. Believe me, I've had to do this lots in the past...

U mean MEDIA. Because DATA is EVERYTHING, OS, games, Audio, Video, etc.
Media is Audio, Video, Photos/Images, Documents, CD Images (AKA ISOs), etc.

i feel for you man...i know what its like to lose MP3s multiple times...ive lost probably over 30GB(broken RAID stripes...hard drive crashes) to date and it sucks every time. next time just start backing up on CD-R's or if you have enough money get a backup drive...and keep your drives seperate. partition if you have to; it wont save you from a hard drive crash but it will from a reinstall...if you have loads of money just get a dvd burner 5gb per disc or 9gb mmmmmmmm that would be nice.
i wish you luck on your impending journey through "no music hell"

Re: Just lost 15 Gb OF MP3'z and Windows 98 :(

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Originally posted by DJ RozzeR Okay im going to go on a rampage and kill anyone you gets in my way , my Alcatel home 500 from BT aint workin , its says there is NO DIAL TONE , which is a load of shit coz i tested the socket 10 times, this means that there is a corrupt network device on my pc , which aint fixable as the driver wont install , ive tried upgrading the drivers and still wont work , ive tried to install XP over 98 and its all gone tits up , its saying No OS found on HD , im sure you have seen the error before, so now im gonna have to reinstall everything from fresh , and ill prob be back online in a few days , Ive backed a few mp3's up but only 3 Gb worth.

btw wasnt there a helpline that your asdl provider ran that you could have rang for help or something?? they may have had some server problems or something at the time

Heres What Happened the BT Exchange Server Has had a problem and needed re-setting , i took my pc to a pro ,


he removed my fricken sound card

and said i needed a new one !
load of bollox

he said it was causing a confict , lol , ive just fixed it all .


im back on ADSL NOW !!!

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Originally posted by ali92 U mean MEDIA. Because DATA is EVERYTHING, OS, games, Audio, Video, etc. Media is Audio, Video, Photos/Images, Documents, CD Images (AKA ISOs), etc.

I acutally forgot to put "PERSONAL" in from of "DATA" you TROLL!!

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Originally posted by DJ RozzeR Heres What Happened the BT Exchange Server Has had a problem and needed re-setting , i took my pc to a pro , he removed my fricken sound card and said i needed a new one ! load of bollox he said it was causing a confict , lol , ive just fixed it all . im back on ADSL NOW !!!

must have been a real pro! i personally thought all sound cards where either plug and play (where the bios or operating system allocates all the settings for it (irq's and dma's etc)) or the real old ones had the lil jumper thingys where you select them yourself, so if there was a conflict it should be easy to change the settings to get rid of the conflict.

btw nice to hear your back on line

Jon

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Originally posted by ali92 2. It allows up to 4 TERABYTES per partition, whereas, with FAT 32, you can only have 32 GB per partition.

OK, but who the hell has a 4 TB partition anyways? Just asking

I know the feeling, I lost 1000+ mp3s, all South Park eps and lots of other stuff once..

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Originally posted by Nicke OK, but who the hell has a 4 TB partition anyways? Just asking I know the feeling, I lost 1000+ mp3s, all South Park eps and lots of other stuff once..

My friend's uncle will have a 4 TB partition one day. He already has a 650 GB patition, thanks to RAID 0 (he told me RAID 0.5 but, what is that?)! You get much better speed that way! Read my other post on this. I already posted about this before...

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Originally posted by jonsimmonds btw nice to hear your back on line Jon

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