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    Dead HDD shows ridiculously huge unformatted capacity?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by alexhawker, Sep 25, 2014.

  1. alexhawker

    alexhawker Spent Gladiator

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    I'm mostly just posting this because I got a good chuckle out of this when I saw it this morning.

    I found one of our computers wasn't starting up, and it looked like the HDD failed, so I pulled the drive and threw it in an external dock to see if any of the data was still there (mostly out of curiosity, and to confirm the drive had failed.

    It's an old 640GB WD black 3.5" drive. Anyway, see below - it took a while to show up in disk management, and when it eventually did, listed a ridiculously huge capacity - 134,217,728 GB!

    Hrmmmm.JPG
     
    alexhawker, Sep 25, 2014
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  2. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    No, it hasn't failed!

    These were rumored to transform like that one day!!!

    Create a Partition or two and tell us how it performs!!!!! :) :) :)
     
    tilleroftheearth, Sep 25, 2014
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  3. DrClone

    DrClone Notebook Consultant

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    Format it! I would love to see what happens, maybe you made a secret discovery!
     
    DrClone, Sep 25, 2014
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  4. TomJGX

    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    loooooooooooooooooooooooooooollllllllllllll...
     
    TomJGX, Sep 26, 2014
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  5. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

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    Must be an isolinear memory crystal!
     
    HTWingNut, Sep 28, 2014
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