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Cleaning Out the hard drive
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Long process
what to keep an what not keep;
ie movies games music etc..
To free up some needy space..
o I just wish for another hard drive for storage  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Long process
what to keep an what not keep;
ie movies games music etc..
To free up some needy space..
o I just wish for another hard drive for storage "
ive got an external hard drive for all my music and movies its freed up so much space and vastly improved the performance if my laptop |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Long process
what to keep an what not keep;
ie movies games music etc..
To free up some needy space..
o I just wish for another hard drive for storage
ive got an external hard drive for all my music and movies its freed up so much space and vastly improved the performance if my laptop"
am hoping 2 get one soon
just burning some dvds just now
to free up more |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I got 1gb of memory for christmas as its what i wanted, cost my son £30 didnt think that was a bad price either  "
memory is not hard drive
but not a bad price |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Can get some good hard drives at the moment, a 500gb for around 30 to quid
I've filled up my 120gb drive ages ago, makes doing a defrag take forever, also
need a new one for my Linux system. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Can get some good hard drives at the moment, a 500gb for around 30 to quid
I've filled up my 120gb drive ages ago, makes doing a defrag take forever;
also need a new one for my Linux system."
dead right mind few years
a 80 gig h.d was about £120
now its only £35 for one or less, just depends in where yeh get them from |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"them 1tb external drives are a lot cheaper now.
keep an eye on ebay daily deals as i picked up for £30 brand new last month.
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I was going to say the same thing I have one for my uni work and they are great as I don't want to use the memory on the lappy |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"them 1tb external drives are a lot cheaper now.
keep an eye on ebay daily deals as i picked up for £30 brand new last month.
I was going to say the same thing I have one for my uni work and they are great as I don't want to use the memory on the lappy "
great arent they lady  |
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By *ee_awMan
over a year ago
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you should be careful buying any external hard drives or sd cards, mp3 players etc. on ebay if it's coming from china... they have a huge industry over there using memory which has failed quality control, screwing around with it so it looks like it has a far higher capacity than it really does and then selling it on ebay.... I bought an sd card which was supposed to be 16Gb, turned out it was actually 4 but showed as 16 in windows (after I actually got it to work). Got my money back but did a lot of research to see if I could repair it etc. and found that there is a hell of a lot of this happening on ebay.... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"you should be careful buying any external hard drives or sd cards, mp3 players etc. on ebay if it's coming from china... they have a huge industry over there using memory which has failed quality control, screwing around with it so it looks like it has a far higher capacity than it really does and then selling it on ebay.... I bought an sd card which was supposed to be 16Gb, turned out it was actually 4 but showed as 16 in windows (after I actually got it to work). Got my money back but did a lot of research to see if I could repair it etc. and found that there is a hell of a lot of this happening on ebay...."
yeh there is its also just a choice, who u can trust if the you read the comments posted.
my m8 is a pc tech an has bought stuff v ebay with a few problems
has got his money with no problems but its best to be careful an buy from trusted source, ie retail shop something like misco or budget computers |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I got 1gb of memory for christmas as its what i wanted, cost my son £30 didnt think that was a bad price either "
1GB of memory for £30?? He was robbed!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Thought most stuff comes from china or Japan these days, having said that i do need a new memory module, as one of mine has fried, and i can't really manage on 256mb, will probably get a cheapy chinese module. |
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"Thought most stuff comes from china or Japan these days, having said that i do need a new memory module, as one of mine has fried, and i can't really manage on 256mb, will probably get a cheapy chinese module."
be careful what you buy from ebay as above been said especially memory
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My first computer had an 80MB hard drive that you had to "park" before you shut down the computer
It also had a 5 1/4" floppy drive as well as the more common 3½" floppy drive.
My PCs now don't even have a floppy drive - and my netbook doesn't even have a CD / DVD drive! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I remember those 5 1/4 inch floppy's, so easy to damage them, got loads of old stuff, cd roms, 56k modem, floppys even an Amiga 1200 in my cupboard, you can probably tell i hate throwing stuff away.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My very 1st PC was an Amstrad DD something or other. It had 2 x 5 1/4" floppy drives, about 750k of RAM and a 20MEG hard drive, yes that was 20MEG not 20GIG and before you switched it off or moved it you had to use a command called 'Shipdisk.com' from DOS which parked the head over an unused sector on the hard drive to avoid damage when being moved.
I had to replace the Hard drive at one point and the biggest I could get was still 20MEG and it cost me over 150quid
That was only about 14-15 years ago - how times have changed |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"i even remember using a tape player to load games, wait for hours then it would all go wrong at the last min"
Ahh the tape player on the Spectrum 48k, that sound it made did my head in. |
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