[MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

[Daswiruch]

931GB drive

1tb*
931gb drives don't exist
931 is the capacity shown by windows as it is misinterpreted for g I b

lol i looked in my post history and i don't remember posting this

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[beachbum111111]

My hard drives work on other computers though...

Also I tried hooking up my laptop HDD to the computer and running Windows 8 off that but the same thing happened.

[Alyx Vance]

Format the drive after getting what information you want off of it. I had that issue with my sisters hard drive.

[Tetris]

1tb*
931gb drives don't exist
931 is the capacity shown by windows as it is misinterpreted for g I b

can you explain this a bit further? I am still a bit confused on why it clearly shows "931 GB"

[Daswiruch]

can you explain this a bit further? I am still a bit confused on why it clearly shows "931 GB"

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old windows stuff that they never bothered to change displays GiB as GB

[Tetris]

wow and they still haven't managed to patch it?

i'd imagine angry customers returning hard drives over realizing its not the 1000 GBs they were promised

[Pecon]

can you explain this a bit further? I am still a bit confused on why it clearly shows "931 GB"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte

Basically, the bibibye is an alternate data unit system that is designed to be more humanly understandable. The 'normal' data units (kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, etc.) flow to the next unit after 1024 units (eg. There are 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte). However, the bibibyte system works off of 1000 units instead, like the metric system. So 1000 mibibytes equals a gibibyte. Microsoft has adopted these values as the standard representation on filesize, but failed to actually differentiate the unit names by still abbreviating them as 'MB' and 'GB' instead of the proper 'MiB' and 'GiB'.

The discrepancy with your drive size is created by the conversion of regular bytes to mibibytes. You're not being undercut, they just advertise the size in a different unit system.

[Daswiruch]

i'd imagine angry customers returning hard drives over realizing its not the 1000 GBs they were promised

believe it or not, this has happened before
i read it somewhere but can't be bothered to find it

[Georges]

what should I get for $100
I'm thinking of a 250gb ssd
that, 8gb of ram or a case

What are your current specs? What case do you have?

[Ducky duck]

A while ago I removed the HDD from my home computer because the OS had corrupted and I have been storing it at my grandparent's house. I took it home today, and wired it into my computer, but when I started my computer and went to "My computer" to view the files on the other HDD, nothing showed up except the Harddrive I am using atm.

I would hope to find out how to open and use some of the files, because I have Microsoft programs that I dont want to have to repurchase on it. (I lost the key/disk for Punch Home Design, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.



Id also like to use it as extra space since I'm running out. Iv had this current HDD for two years and already used up over 100 GiBs, although I can't find many programs that use more than 100 MBs. Including Blockland

[Alyx Vance]

Try an IDE/SATA to USB adapter

[Steve5451²]

what should I get for $100
I'm thinking of a 250gb ssd
that, 8gb of ram or a case

The SSD is nice because you can install your most played games on it, but if you need a new case it's your call.

[Alyx Vance]

While going through an old CD holder I found an ancient relic. A Windows Vista 32bit installation disk that came with a dell computer

[beachbum111111]

-snip-

Im still having problems, I dont know whats wrong because I can get into my BIOS just fine and run my windows OS disk fine as well. But the second I try to use ANY hard drive on this computer it dies

[Steve5451²]

Im still having problems, I dont know whats wrong because I can get into my BIOS just fine and run my windows OS disk fine as well. But the second I try to use ANY hard drive on this computer it dies

So can you boot into the Windows disk with a hard drive plugged in?