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    2 hardrives I need help!

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Halo360Fan, Jun 13, 2008.

  1. Halo360Fan

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    Ok my Acer Aspire 6920G has two hardrives that have 140 Gb making it have 320 gb I want one hardrive just to be for games nad the other fro school work but it saving my school work in one hardrive andit wont save it in the other hadrive. Just for a test I moved the crysis demo into the other hadrive (crysis demo is 1.74 Gb) but the other hardrive says it still has 140 Gb WTF? How does this 2 hardrive thing work?
     
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    Are you sure you moved it? If you just drag it across from one drive to another, Windows will copy the file.

    If you see something like c drive and d drive, they are just counted as two separate drives, no such thing as shared space, the files shouldn't overlap in any way.
     
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    well seeing as 140 + 140 =/= 320 i think your comp may have other problems, unless you just mistyped it twice.
     
    fifafreak18, Jun 13, 2008
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    Aren't you sure your 140gb aren't 148?(nominal hd sizes use 1000 to change from bytes to kilo and mega and giga, while the windows uses 1024 to do this)

    My 2 hard drives works independently as 2 hard drives. Are you sure you that when you moved the file it moved the file and not just created a shortcut?
     
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    Do the drives have their own drive letters?

    If they're appearing as one large capacity drive - with just the one drive letter, they've undoubtedly been setup in a RAID 0 configuration?
     
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    One says acer and the other says Data 140 Gb each
     
    Halo360Fan, Jun 14, 2008
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