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Super Mario
17-08-2009, 08:03 PM
WTF is this shit and does anyone know how I can use it for porn?
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p223/thegeorgebush/screen%20caps%20and%20forum%20stuff/wasteofspace.jpg
FX-GTZ
17-08-2009, 08:13 PM
It means dont touch, because it doesnt have a format system. And if you did mess around with it, you just might mess up your defrags or something...

anyway i grabbed this from the web:
This is the Utility Partition and is not required for normal operation of the System. The partition is there so that the Diagnostics & EISA Configuration can be run without using a boot Disk. The EISA Configuration is a utility that came on a floppy dick with your pc and it is used to configure your system if there is an ISA or EISA device, it writes itself to that partition. Or if you run Dell Diagnostics which is on 5 floppy disks ( why they dont have it on a cd is beyond me) , they write themselves to this partition.
Silverwolf
17-08-2009, 08:27 PM
That means it does nothing, format that shit and fill it with porn.
AranchineD
17-08-2009, 08:29 PM
Yep, if you have the boot disk for your machine go right ahead and wipe it out.
FX-GTZ
17-08-2009, 08:49 PM
Be sure to do a backup if your silly enough to listen to Aran's post.
Silverwolf
17-08-2009, 08:51 PM
Be sure to do a backup if your silly enough to listen to Aran's post.

There is no need, it is an empty partition, there is nothing to lose.
FX-GTZ
17-08-2009, 08:53 PM
There is no need, it is an empty partition, there is nothing to lose.
Well if thats the case, use it for storage, heck i'll chuck some porn his way too.Just... not throughthe forum.
Pai Mel
23-08-2009, 06:39 PM
9.76 GB is hardly what I would call a 'useful' amount for pron storage.
Second
23-08-2009, 09:09 PM
9.76 GB is hardly what I would call a 'useful' amount for pron storage.

Look at his free space. He NEEDS the room for MORE PORN.
Dunkurtin
23-08-2009, 10:48 PM
needs some 500gig+ hard drives imo.
aubergine
23-08-2009, 10:54 PM
I just leave the internet to host the porn. It's FOR that.
Araenel
23-08-2009, 11:03 PM
In the days of a streaming wonderland, who the hell saves porn anymore?
Second
23-08-2009, 11:17 PM
People with download limits.
AranchineD
23-08-2009, 11:19 PM
In the days of a streaming wonderland, who the hell saves porn anymore?

Hi I'm AranchineD.
Lazlow
23-08-2009, 11:20 PM
I'm a skeleton
AranchineD
23-08-2009, 11:22 PM
Get out of my closet!
Vicious
24-08-2009, 11:47 AM
People with download limits.

What's a download limit . . . ?

:p
Fenrir
24-08-2009, 12:44 PM
There is no need, it is an empty partition, there is nothing to lose.
How would you know? The interface has nfi what filesystem it is formatted as.

I'm gathering by the naming of the C drive, the system came from Acer? Contact them and find out what's on it, and/or what format it's in. You might get lucky and find some info by googling your model name/number/whatever, too.

Either way, you need more space than that. Another 100GB should be well under $100, even for a laptop drive.
Pai Mel
24-08-2009, 01:03 PM
2.5" 500GB Western Digital hard drives are $125 these days. And a 1TB is coming soon.
tau
24-08-2009, 08:38 PM
huh? is this last year or something? I bought a 1tb for about that last week :S
StorminNorman
24-08-2009, 09:12 PM
Oddly, I bought 4 of them for $110 last week.

Then I RAIDed them together into a 2TB RAID10.
Pai Mel
24-08-2009, 10:16 PM
Laptop drives. I prefer them due to only needing power from USB, and also being a lot quieter.
tau
24-08-2009, 10:40 PM
oh, 2.5" Righty-o!

Meh, I have 6 SATA ports on my mb, currently 3 drives in there. Don't really bother with externals unless I actually need to take it around with me.
Super Mario
25-08-2009, 06:54 AM
needs some 500gig+ hard drives imo.

Already full
:)
StorminNorman
25-08-2009, 09:12 AM
Laptop drives. I prefer them due to only needing power from USB, and also being a lot quieter.

I was using some of these in my computer up until one failed last week. I guess 24/7 operation doesn't really agree with laptop drives.

Meh, I have 6 SATA ports on my mb, currently 3 drives in there.

My motherboard only has 4 SATA ports :(. If it had 6, I'd be running a 3TB RAID10.
Second
25-08-2009, 09:14 AM
My motherboard only has 4 SATA ports :(. If it had 6, I'd be running a 3TB RAID10.... Why?
StorminNorman
25-08-2009, 09:35 AM
Because it's a cheap motherboard.
Second
25-08-2009, 09:37 AM
No, why the **** would you need that much space? I've heard you're an anime freak, but COME ON.
Dunkurtin
25-08-2009, 10:07 AM
Sif still be using ATA optical drives instead of SATA ones.
Fenrir
25-08-2009, 10:15 AM
I was using some of these in my computer up until one failed last week. I guess 24/7 operation doesn't really agree with laptop drives.
I'm really finding that laptop anything doesn't really suit the wear and abuse of being my main machine - I can't imagine mine seeing its second birthday. Really regretting not having a desktop, now. >_>

Also going to miss this (http://xkcd.com/490/).
StorminNorman
25-08-2009, 11:25 PM
My Macbook has held up really well as my main computer for a year and a half now.

No, why the **** would you need that much space? I've heard you're an anime freak, but COME ON.

Oddly, I did need it last week when I had to create nearly 600GB worth of DVD rips to use for screenings at Manifest.

(We can't legally do format conversions, so we can only make bitwise copies of each disc, rather than compressing them into MPEG4 or whatever.)

Also, I'm a firm believer that you can never have too much disk space.
tau
25-08-2009, 11:44 PM
You can't, really. $100~ for 1TB? How could you go wrong?
Silverwolf
26-08-2009, 03:20 AM
You can't, really. $100~ for 1TB? How could you go wrong?

You drop it before you install it!
tau
26-08-2009, 01:49 PM
That'd be pretty fail!