THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Reb on February 03, 2010, 12:59:13 PM
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A while ago I bought a USB drive, with 8 or 16GB capacity, I don't really remember.
I unsuccessfully tried to make it boot my computer with the Chromium operating system.
Now, a few months later, when I check the USB drive, it says it only has 950MB capacity.
Where did the rest go? How can I restore it?
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this oddly happens with my usb drives when i delete files from MAC
what i have to do is go to a windows machine and show hidden files and then delete the hidden directory "trashed"
then my full capacity is restored. I haven't dicked around enough to find out how to display "hidden" directories in OSX
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Yeah, was gonna say to check the hidden files in case you stashed some porn or something on there and forgot
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Sounded good, doesn't seem to be anything there. I switched on the "show hidden files and folders" thing.
(http://i45.tinypic.com/2dilvo1.png)
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yeah then i dunno
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did you try to format it?
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Try this: Go into the disk management window. Easiest way I know to do it is to right click "My Computer", click Manage. Then click "Disk Management".
You should be able to see the sizes of every attached drive.
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And for the love of god format that shit to NTFS instead of FAT32.
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And for the love of god format that shit to NTFS instead of FAT32.
I converted my external to FAT32 cuz the shitty 360 doesn't support NTFS lol
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Get PartitionMagic, it's possible the drive has multiple partitions, with the alternative one only being accessible through boot or some shit. Who knows, really.
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tehjaybo wins, Raban is also right, it's split in 4 partitions with the biggest one unallocated.
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tehjaybo wins, Raban is also right, it's split in 4 partitions with the biggest one unallocated.
How the hell did you manage to do this is what I'm wondering.
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I dunno man, I was fucking around with partition magic at some point to make a bootable USB drive...
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I dunno man, I was fucking around with partition magic at some point to make a bootable USB drive...
:lol
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I dunno man, I was fucking around with partition magic at some point to make a bootable USB drive...
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
Good jon.
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???
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well, take some consolation in the fact that it could have gone much, much MUCH worse :rofl
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Seriously, Partition Magic may look like a nice, modern app...but it's actually a snarling primeval beast from the days of DOS and Win 3.1. You can totally fuck your PC up with a few stray clicks if you're not sure what you're doing.
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Seriously, Partition Magic may look like a nice, modern app...but it's actually a snarling primeval beast from the days of DOS and Win 3.1. You can totally fuck your PC up with a few stray clicks if you're not sure what you're doing.
I did that to my brother's PC that had Windows 98 on it a long time ago. Oddly enough, I deleted the partition and with windows and we lost all that and then when I rebooted I discovered a partition with Windows 3.1... because that's what it booted up in :'(
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your USB drive loses capacity because you're gay Rebiak
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Take it easy with the technical terms nerd, some of us didn't go to Harvard.
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lol