i was a boot sale and i saw a load of hard drives 4 sale (second hand) they looked like most of them were riped out of old/new computers. the problem is when i was looking at some of them they said 4 example 50 sectors and some other suff, but it did not say that the hard drive was 4 gig,20 gig or anything like that. i would like 2 no how to read and understand how big a harddrive is by looking at the sector sizes on there own. can any 1 shed any light on da subject
I would imagine google is still operational. A bit frustrating at times but still an excellent source of information.
that the hard way
Big Dawg
....ask someone who works there...lol
did a lil research for ya
Sectors
The physics behind reading and writing of data onto the hard disk is invisible to the user because the operating system hides all the complexity involved. Instead it presents a simplified, logical hard disk layout to whatever program is performing the input/output (I/O) operations. In this model, the entire hard disk space is supposed to be divided into little “boxes” called sectors. Every sector can hold a maximum of 512 bytes of data. So, if a 2000-byte file would occupy 4 sectos leaving 48 bytes of unused space in the last sector.
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Alot of hard drives will say their specs on the drive atleast, if not the actual size, then perhaps the number of sectors, like foxx explained.
Big Dawg
by the way....512 bytes=.5 KB...so 50 sectors of 512 bytes=25 KB.... ...... ...........lololol
ballam...what do you mean i shouldnt have? is this info wrong? cuz i really dont know...thats an awful small hd lol
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btw, talkin about hd size.
I recently sent an old 40gb (5400 rpm) maxtor hardrive back for warrenty.
They sent me a brand new model 60gb (7200 rpm) HD in return!
Man Maxtor is nice!!
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**Hunts around for his 4 year old 20GB WD.Originally posted by Wolfmight@15 September 2003 - 23:44
btw, talkin about hd size.
I recently sent an old 40gb (5400 rpm) maxtor hardrive back for warrenty.
They sent me a brand new model 60gb (7200 rpm) HD in return!
Man Maxtor is nice!!
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