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Capacity of a hard drive
Sorry about the last message. The old formula of cylinder * heads * sectors per track * 512 still works if you apply it to each zone and then total up the capacites. The problem was not the formula I employed, it was that I actually beleived the data I read in one of the widely known hardware...- dougevans
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Capacity of a hard drive
How do you calculate the capacity of a multi zoned recorded hard drive from the cylinder allocation table (Zones, Physical Cylinders, Sectors/Track and Heads). The cyliners * heads * sectors/track * 512 method used with non zoned drives does not work. Thanks- dougevans
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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CD-Rom problems!
Windows XP home. Working fine untill Nero 6 was installed. XP no longer "finds" any of the DVD drives. Drives uninstalled, system rebooted. Drives reinstalled and system rebooted. No change. Drives are shoen in device manager, but the following message is displayed:Windows successfully...- dougevans
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- Forum: PC hardware - Peripheral issues
