Help required on Hard Disk Compression

[cs7799]

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

 

[rgd1101]

not a chance, you are looking for .06 compression.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

A greater than 10x increase in capacity through compression?

Not gonna happen.

 

[cs7799]

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

 

[rgd1101]

You might want to double check what your friend got.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

What you describe is impossible and can't be done. However, please feel free to dream on.

 

[Wolfshadw]

What your friend likely has is a single 500GB hard drive with a 30GB partition used solely for the operating system.

-Wolf sends

 

[cs7799]

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.

 

[Wolfshadw]

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

 

[rgd1101]

2. But while the system boots up in Win XP, from the device manager of xp its showing 500GB with 4 partition.

device manger do not show partition. are you sure it isn't disk management? post a screenshot.

 

[cs7799]

Hi All, sorry for the late reply. I have got all the pictures and snapshots related to this issue mentioned above.

But can anybody tell me how to attach pictures in this post (couldn't find any picture attachment button here).

 

[Wolfshadw]

Post the images on a hosting site (photobucket, imageshack, etc...).
Post the image URLs using the IMG tags.

[img]http://url.of.image.jpg[/img]

-Wolf sends

 

[cs7799]

Thanks Wolf for the help, there goes the link for the photos of the problem mentioned above

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127541983@N07/sets/72157649158785456/

 

[Someone Somewhere]

That's interesting...

Someone's screwed around with the registry to make it misreport stuff would be my guess.

 

[rgd1101]

a few discrepancy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127541983@N07/15570299207/in/set-72157649158785456
i7 620M
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127541983@N07/15570291727/in/set-72157649158785456
Celeron M

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127541983@N07/15755442565/in/set-72157649158785456
memory 256 mb?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127541983@N07/15135499164/in/set-72157649158785456
disk said 38GB

p.s. the screen border look different too. post a full laptop shot with the screen with the info.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127541983@N07/15135499164/in/set-72157649158785456
look like the he/she try to remove the id from the screen. the header should have said the disk ID.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Another discrepancy.

The OP claims Windows XP, however, the in Windows screenshots are from Vista. We're looking at no less than 2 different machines here. I'm beginning to smell something trollish.