New Build - CPU.... oh no...

errrr.... take a look:

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Well from that it seems like you have installed windows on the seagate- was that your intention? Hard drives normally appear a few GB less than their actual size anyway but I'm not sure why the seagate is being picked up as only 298GB.
 
you have installed windows on the seagate. and you have not formatted or even initialized the raptor. windows is not stored over two drives its just on the seagate. youll need to reinstall to get wht you initially hoped.
 
worked out ok then, ill keep windows and other apps on seagate and put all my flight simming stuff (the main part of what i use the pc for) on the raptor.

i can always change it later by formatting the drives ey ;)
 
PilotTait said:
isnt an option to do that :confused:

just:

New Partition
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properties
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help
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Right click on the bit where it says 'Disk 1' :) If you only get 'new partition' on that menu, make a new one and set it to the full size of the drive, then you should be able to format it :cool:
 
o, well if i click the "disk 1" i only get:

- convert to dynamic disk
- properties
- help


i was clicking on where it says 69.24gb unallocated when i got the option for partition before...


do i convert to dynamic disk or new partition.... hehe
 
Hmm, I can honestly say I don't know :o At a guess I would say 'new partition'. Anyway, if it all goes belly up you can always reinstall windows :p
 
well Trig, you can say you know now, you were right, new partition, its now formatting and i had to select a drive name (i.e - drive E) so looks like its working :)

thanks,
now onto my final mission :D , RAM timings (see my topic in the memory forum if you know anything about it)
 
298GB is correct for the seagate 320.

All hard drive manufacturers work in 1000byte blocks instead of 1024 when measuring capacity

320,062,062,592 is the actual capacity of a 7200.10 320gb seagate drive.

312,560,608 KBytes
305,234 Mbytes
298 Gbytes

In the early days people blamed the actual formatting of the drive for using the space, but that stinks of an excuse to me, as if you formatted a 20meg MFM drive with an RLL format 9/10 times you would get a working 30meg hard drive :)

I think it was Maxtor (before seagate took them over) who actually admitted on their website that they considered 1k = 1000 bytes.
 
Robbie G said:
I thoroughly recommend reinstalling windows on the Raptor. Pain in the short run but large long-term gains!
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any reason for it?

i probaly will have it that way in the end, is there any easy way of doing it?

currently its like so:

74gb raptor - nothing on it
320gb seagate - windows and battlefield 2

so do i basicly pop in windows disk, wipe BOTH drives, install windows on the 74gb and then do what i just did to get ther seagate to show up?
 
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PilotTait said:
any reason for it?

i probaly will have it that way in the end, is there any easy way of doing it?
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The reason is that the speed dependent applications should be placed on the drive with the fastest seek time i.e. the Raptor. This will improve loading times in Windows and games and will also help with things like defragging, installing etc.

There's no easy way that I know of to do it. I would do as you say and bite the bullet:

- Reboot the computer with the Windows CD in the drive
- Re-format the Raptor and create a Windows and a games partition
- Format the Seagate as storage once Windows has been installed

...is what I would do.
 
Robbie G said:
The reason is that the speed dependent applications should be placed on the drive with the fastest seek time i.e. the Raptor. This will improve loading times in Windows and games and will also help with things like defragging, installing etc.
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The speed difference is extremley negligable, especially with the Seagate 7200.10 drives and there is virtually no difference now in loading times.
 
Trig, so basicly, ill go by the phrase "if it aint broke, dont fix it" ;)

i might do it, i might not, but for now, its working and im not in the mood for tinkering, spent to long getting it to work, its time for some gaming!

(still need to set that ram though....)
 
Trigger said:
The speed difference is extremley negligable, especially with the Seagate 7200.10 drives and there is virtually no difference now in loading times.
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Agreed the difference is small, but there is a difference, and if you have a 10k drive and a 7.2k drive sitting next to each other, which would you use for Windows and games?

WD Raptor = fastest SATA drive, end of.
 
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