thank you <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
although, i dont want to buy new hdd's now... i have no money, and im saving up to upgrade my computer, not spend 800 bucks on 4 new hdds so i can leech more :| although, it would be nice.... <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
but no, i dont have hobbies like Anime, just... er... well, i cant say that. but not nearly enough to fill up an extra 800 GB of space. and i have a 3 GB internet cap so i wont be downloading anything except at lans
but later in life if i ever get money, i will be better off for knowing this <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> thanks <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
I have one. can one create partitions outa mostly full hard drives, or can you only make a new partition out of empty space? I'd theoretically like to put my windoze in its own partition like everyone suggests, but is that possible at this point, considering I have like 1 gig of free space?
Computer name: Gigolo (first one which hit me, previous comp was Toaster (cause it looked like one))
First disk: C: Aku (Donald Duck in english) D: Tupu (Huey) E: Hupu (Dewey) F: Lupu (Louie) Second disk: H: Iines (Daisey I: Hessu (Goofy)
Figured out there shoulda be quite enough names for any amount of partitions. I could have partitioned the first 80G drive only into three partitions but then there would be no Louie or Donald, thats bad 'mmkay?
Almost 18 months ago, after suffering with a stupid computer made by TINY,I bought my own parts and built one myself. I'm still using it now (not here, I am at school atm bored out of my skull). Given my nickname at the time,I dubbed the computer: "Teh beast!" This was also because at the time, this was one serious peice of computer- a GeForce 4 Ti 4600 at the heart of it.. (18 months ago remember, no OMG YOU NUB YOU SHOULD HAVE GOT A ATI!!!!1111oneoenoen) I had intended to spraypaint it blood red but this...never happened. As for the harddrives, I stuck with boring names: C: Main D: backup. [end nonsensical post...]
<!--QuoteBegin--uranium - 235+Nov 19 2003, 05:03 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (uranium - 235 @ Nov 19 2003, 05:03 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Why the goofy names? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Thought just hit me once. Firstly, theyre surprising names and useful at the same time. Donald is main disk and H&D&L are identical in each other and I dont have to refer to disks as "C, D, E etc." but only tell em to install it at Huey. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> And I got bored seeing everywhere those normal names "XP, Stuff, Moviez, Music". This way I still remember better in which order they are and what goes where. And giving proper name to partition makes it become part of family <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
I have one. can one create partitions outa mostly full hard drives, or can you only make a new partition out of empty space? I'd theoretically like to put my windoze in its own partition like everyone suggests, but is that possible at this point, considering I have like 1 gig of free space? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Yes you can, but only with <a href='http://www.powerquest.com/' target='_blank'>Partition Magic</a> or... or with some else super duper partition tool. Though I must give you a tiny little <span style='color:red'>WARNING</span> about Partition Magic: It can still mess up your whole system and other partitions (if you would have other partitions) in case something goes wrong with it. So you better make 1:1 backup from system before dividing full hard drive into several smaller ones. Once already I've seen 120G hard drive being wiped clean. Same thing nearly happened to me too and now im too afraid to use it. So if its any way possible, put everything you got on computer to some friends Big drive and then format your own hard drive and make those partitions needed. Windows XP (Pro only?) has excellent disk management software built-in. And its safe as anything.
The C:\ is screwed so i need to take it out (hence why it's empty).
I feel so naked, i used to run three seperate drives, but the old one was too noisey, that had to go. I'm only gonna be left with ~60gb. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
System name(s): 1 "Banality Box, Derelict Special, Ye ole Spaceheater, my F***ing computer" 2: the "Other" Computer C:\ Smegbox (Original, sounds like a helicopter) D:\ Gillbox (First addon, makes the helicpoter sound more like an Osprey) E: DVD (Weedwackers make less noise) F: Trogdor: The CD Burninator (currently religated to "CD Player" duty) G:\ Alphabox (Currently sitting on the USB bus on the mobo wrapped in electrical tape) H:\ Stuff (Soon to be renamed FTP Transfer) (Partition of G:\) i:\ Camera (technically 2 identical HP Photosmart 315's) J:\ MP3 Player (El Cheapo POS from RadioShack) L: Palm (Palm IIIe, rarely used) Network c:\ Irishbox (Got a dead HP Pavillion from a friend, rebuilt/repaired it and named it in his honor)
And i still have another HDD to reprogram and shoehorn in one of the systems
Back when my overclocked 800Mhz was the fastest thing on the block, I called it Bad Mother F*****. These days I call my 3 computers Balthasar, Melchior, and Casper (the three magi in reference to Neon Genesis Evangelion).
Generally I just name my partitions System, Data, and Swap; but they change around all the time and I probably reformat one of the 3 computers every month. Hooray for disk imaging; makes my job a lot easier. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--Infinitum+Nov 19 2003, 01:14 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Infinitum @ Nov 19 2003, 01:14 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The only problem with IDE Cards is that they do not support ATAPI devices. No running of your DVD-Rom off the IDE card <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Totally disagree.
Ran my Yamaha 8x8x24 CDBurner off of channel 2 of my Promise 100 ATA card for almost three years. Also ran my DVD drive off of it once when I needed the Secondary IDE for something.
Detected it just fine at boot up, always ran like a charm in Windows 2000, never had a bufferunderrun. <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
This old computer went like this:
Primary IDE: 15gig HD, 13 gig HD Secondary IDE: DVD drive ATA Card channel 1: 75 gig HD ATA Card Channel 2: CDBurner
How big of a psupply you running inf? I ran all that on a dell 200 watt psupply for three years before it finally cratered <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->
IIRC, I'm still using the ATA card to power the cdburner in my new computer, will check when I get home.
Back to the subject on hand, I call my computer <b>Fast Chief</b>, and I'll edit this post with my partitions when I get home as well.
Ran my Yamaha 8x8x24 CDBurner off of channel 2 of my Promise 100 ATA card for almost three years. Also ran my DVD drive off of it once when I needed the Secondary IDE for something.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah, you can run ATAPI devices on IDE expansion cards. But not on RAID cards, which is what he has.
<!--QuoteBegin--Marik_Steele+Nov 18 2003, 09:25 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Marik_Steele @ Nov 18 2003, 09:25 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Would anyone be able to tell me if it's worth buying an old 2 gig drive from a computer show for this purpose? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Theoretically putting the swapfile on a separate harddrive would improve performance, but you have to remember one thing. Most older smaller harddrives like that would likely be ATA33, and it would slow down any other devices on that IDE chain. So you'd want that drive on its own separate channel.
<!--QuoteBegin--::esuna::+Nov 19 2003, 05:54 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (::esuna:: @ Nov 19 2003, 05:54 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The C:\ is screwed so i need to take it out (hence why it's empty).
I feel so naked, i used to run three seperate drives, but the old one was too noisey, that had to go. I'm only gonna be left with ~60gb. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
I feel i need a nice new 120gb drive. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Your drive names own eu-san <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
My comp is called Melifre, the C: Drive is called C:
I had this as a background for a while. Just centered with a black backdrop. I am also using <a href='http://users.tpg.com.au/tjhowse/halsounds.zip' target='_blank'>this</a> homemade sound pack. You have to convert them all back to .wav before windows will recognise them. Whenever I get a criticial error HAL says "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
i am running wiht 4 20 gig partitions on 2 40 gig drives called drum roll please c: local disk(win2k pro) d: apps( all tools go here) e: games (hl and steam) f: data computer named fat man.. i night be confused (the music server i have down stairs in called little boy
my one hard drive is simply named Macintosh HD and my laptop's name is Lisa, after the abyssmal Apple machine of the early eighties. oh, and my laptop is a girl. she's much too cute to be a boy. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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Like an Ethernet card, or a sound card or a crappy video card.
thank you <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
although, i dont want to buy new hdd's now... i have no money, and im saving up to upgrade my computer, not spend 800 bucks on 4 new hdds so i can leech more :| although, it would be nice.... <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
but no, i dont have hobbies like Anime, just... er... well, i cant say that. but not nearly enough to fill up an extra 800 GB of space. and i have a 3 GB internet cap so i wont be downloading anything except at lans
but later in life if i ever get money, i will be better off for knowing this <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> thanks <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
C: = "FARM"
any questions?
...
I have one. can one create partitions outa mostly full hard drives, or can you only make a new partition out of empty space? I'd theoretically like to put my windoze in its own partition like everyone suggests, but is that possible at this point, considering I have like 1 gig of free space?
C:\> 60GB partition for Win2K, named Drana.
D:\> 60GB partition for WinXPPro, named Gedrah.
E:\> 120GB storage drive, named Eruharn.
The PC itself is an AXP2800+ with 1GB DDR333 with high-performance DDR timing (so running at 666mhz) and a GF4MX on the motherboard.
d: My back up crap
Computer name: Dazza
Description: "elite" h4xor gaming rig
First disk:
C: Aku (Donald Duck in english)
D: Tupu (Huey)
E: Hupu (Dewey)
F: Lupu (Louie)
Second disk:
H: Iines (Daisey
I: Hessu (Goofy)
Figured out there shoulda be quite enough names for any amount of partitions. I could have partitioned the first 80G drive only into three partitions but then there would be no Louie or Donald, thats bad 'mmkay?
"Teh beast!"
This was also because at the time, this was one serious peice of computer- a GeForce 4 Ti 4600 at the heart of it.. (18 months ago remember, no OMG YOU NUB YOU SHOULD HAVE GOT A ATI!!!!1111oneoenoen)
I had intended to spraypaint it blood red but this...never happened.
As for the harddrives, I stuck with boring names:
C: Main
D: backup.
[end nonsensical post...]
Description : Fast mofo with a ripoff video card
C:\ is called Baka Disk
And to be honest....Im a n00b at even installing HDDs, thank god for my friend who teaches me how to do it....
d: Stuff
Hell I'm creative
Thought just hit me once. Firstly, theyre surprising names and useful at the same time. Donald is main disk and H&D&L are identical in each other and I dont have to refer to disks as "C, D, E etc." but only tell em to install it at Huey. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
And I got bored seeing everywhere those normal names "XP, Stuff, Moviez, Music". This way I still remember better in which order they are and what goes where. And giving proper name to partition makes it become part of family <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
C: = "FARM"
any questions?
...
I have one. can one create partitions outa mostly full hard drives, or can you only make a new partition out of empty space? I'd theoretically like to put my windoze in its own partition like everyone suggests, but is that possible at this point, considering I have like 1 gig of free space? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes you can, but only with <a href='http://www.powerquest.com/' target='_blank'>Partition Magic</a> or... or with some else super duper partition tool. Though I must give you a tiny little <span style='color:red'>WARNING</span> about Partition Magic: It can still mess up your whole system and other partitions (if you would have other partitions) in case something goes wrong with it. So you better make 1:1 backup from system before dividing full hard drive into several smaller ones.
Once already I've seen 120G hard drive being wiped clean. Same thing nearly happened to me too and now im too afraid to use it. So if its any way possible, put everything you got on computer to some friends Big drive and then format your own hard drive and make those partitions needed.
Windows XP (Pro only?) has excellent disk management software built-in. And its safe as anything.
Wouldn't you have been better off getting a Raid motherboard?
I feel so naked, i used to run three seperate drives, but the old one was too noisey, that had to go. I'm only gonna be left with ~60gb. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
I feel i need a nice new 120gb drive.
2: the "Other" Computer
C:\ Smegbox (Original, sounds like a helicopter)
D:\ Gillbox (First addon, makes the helicpoter sound more like an Osprey)
E: DVD (Weedwackers make less noise)
F: Trogdor: The CD Burninator (currently religated to "CD Player" duty)
G:\ Alphabox (Currently sitting on the USB bus on the mobo wrapped in electrical tape)
H:\ Stuff (Soon to be renamed FTP Transfer) (Partition of G:\)
i:\ Camera (technically 2 identical HP Photosmart 315's)
J:\ MP3 Player (El Cheapo POS from RadioShack)
L: Palm (Palm IIIe, rarely used)
Network c:\ Irishbox (Got a dead HP Pavillion from a friend, rebuilt/repaired it and named it in his honor)
And i still have another HDD to reprogram and shoehorn in one of the systems
Generally I just name my partitions System, Data, and Swap; but they change around all the time and I probably reformat one of the 3 computers every month. Hooray for disk imaging; makes my job a lot easier. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
D: - DISK_D
E: - DISK_E
F: - DISK_F
G: - DISK_G
H: - DISK_H
I: - DISK_I
T: - Compact Disc
Z: - DVDRW
Yes, original names. Eat your heart out! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Totally disagree.
Ran my Yamaha 8x8x24 CDBurner off of channel 2 of my Promise 100 ATA card for almost three years. Also ran my DVD drive off of it once when I needed the Secondary IDE for something.
Detected it just fine at boot up, always ran like a charm in Windows 2000, never had a bufferunderrun. <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
This old computer went like this:
Primary IDE: 15gig HD, 13 gig HD
Secondary IDE: DVD drive
ATA Card channel 1: 75 gig HD
ATA Card Channel 2: CDBurner
How big of a psupply you running inf? I ran all that on a dell 200 watt psupply for three years before it finally cratered <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->
IIRC, I'm still using the ATA card to power the cdburner in my new computer, will check when I get home.
Back to the subject on hand, I call my computer <b>Fast Chief</b>, and I'll edit this post with my partitions when I get home as well.
Ran my Yamaha 8x8x24 CDBurner off of channel 2 of my Promise 100 ATA card for almost three years. Also ran my DVD drive off of it once when I needed the Secondary IDE for something.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah, you can run ATAPI devices on IDE expansion cards. But not on RAID cards, which is what he has.
Theoretically putting the swapfile on a separate harddrive would improve performance, but you have to remember one thing. Most older smaller harddrives like that would likely be ATA33, and it would slow down any other devices on that IDE chain. So you'd want that drive on its own separate channel.
I feel so naked, i used to run three seperate drives, but the old one was too noisey, that had to go. I'm only gonna be left with ~60gb. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
I feel i need a nice new 120gb drive. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Your drive names own eu-san <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
My comp is called Melifre, the C: Drive is called C:
that's all I have...it's a laptop.
<img src='http://users.tpg.com.au/tjhowse/hal9000.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
I had this as a background for a while. Just centered with a black backdrop. I am also using <a href='http://users.tpg.com.au/tjhowse/halsounds.zip' target='_blank'>this</a> homemade sound pack. You have to convert them all back to .wav before windows will recognise them. Whenever I get a criticial error HAL says "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
One 80 gig drive named "Local Disk".
Woo.
--Scythe--
called drum roll please
c: local disk(win2k pro)
d: apps( all tools go here)
e: games (hl and steam)
f: data
computer named fat man.. i night be confused
(the music server i have down stairs in called little boy
ahh teh stupidity
d: - Music
e: - Garbage
f: - Movies
g: - Windows XP
h: - Games
i: - Windows 2000
j: - Debian (actually HDA 9 or 10 or something... but for letter's sake...)
k: - DVD Drive
l: - CD-RW 1
m: - CD-RW 2
n: - Network Drive 1
o: - Network Drive 2
p: - Network Drive 3
q: - Network Drive 4
I'm also gonna be adding a few more network drives soon, as soon as I stop being lazy.
My entire little renderfarm, including the shining crown jewel:
1) <b>Nexus</b> <i>(Athlon64 3200+, 512MB PC3200, R9500 Pro)</i>
<li>/boot (80MB-ext3)
<li>/ (15GB-ext3)
<li>C:\ (50GB-NTFS)
<li>EXTENDED
<li>Linux Swap (1.5GB)
<li>E:\ (50GB-NTFS)
<li>F:\ (Whatever's left from 200GB-FAT32)
<li>D:\ (40GB-FAT32)
2) <b>Hivemind</b> <i>(Athlon TBird 1.4GHz, 1.5GB PC133, Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 TV-Out <KYRO2>)</i>
<li>C:\ (40GB-FAT32)
3) <b>Archon</b> <i>(Athlon-700 <Slot A>, 512MB PC133, Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 <KYRO2>)</i>
<li>/boot
<li>/
<li>LINUX SWAP
<li>C:\ (Primary)
<li>D:\ (Secondary)
<li>E:\ (Tertiary)
<li>F:\ (Quaternary)
<li>G:\ (Quint)
4) <b>OSWALD</b> <i>(K6-333, 512MB PC133, ATi RAGE FURY MAXX)</i>
<li>/boot
<li>/
<li>/usr
<li>LINUX SWAP
5) <b>CHIMAERA</b> <i>(Cyrix K6-233, 512MB PC133, Diamond Viper, Creative Monster3D <VOODOO1>)</i>
<li>/boot
<li>/
<li>LINUX SWAP
6) <b>BLACK</b> <i>(AMD-333, 256MB PC133, ATi Rage128)</i>
<li>/boot
<li>/
<li>LINUX SWAP
7) <b>Xerxes</b> <i>(Toshiba Satellite 2545CDS)</i>
<li>C:\
<li>D:\
8) <b>Grammaton</b> <i>(Gateway Solo 9500 Custom)</i>
<li>C:\
weee.
my computer never really had a name, but every time it froze i'd yell "son of a f***!"
so that kinda stuck.
C:\ "Sys" - 30gb HD, NTFS
F:\ "Stuff" - 40gb HD, FAT32
(D & E are my dvd drive & cd burner)
\ - 7.75gb, JFS
(swap) - ~256mb, linux swap
^those two are on a 8gb HD I got from who-knows-where
Computer 2: Debaser ( P2-450, 384mb PC100, Matrox Millennium II)
\ - 9.5gb, JFS
(swap) - ~512mb, linux swap
Computer 3: Craptop (P3-400, 128mb PC100, NeoMagic integrated video)
\ - 4.5gb, ext3
(swap) - ~512mb, linux swap