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- From: cho@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Il Hyung Cho)
- Subject: Re: Formatted size of Apple 80MB Drive? (Q)
- Message-ID: <cho-181192130734@260-3r-mac6a.wdl.loral.com>
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- Organization: LORAL - Western Development Labs
- References: <bic.722111832@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:09:24 GMT
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- In article <bic.722111832@cgl.ucsf.edu>, bic@cgl.ucsf.edu (Bruce Cohen)
- wrote:
- >
- >
- > I just reformatted a vanilla Mac II si 80MB hard drive with the
- > disk tools from system 7.1. The disk shows less than 76MB of formatted
- > capacity. Have I lost disk space or is this normal?
- >
-
- There some invisible files that you are not able to see, several of them
- are "DESKTOP" files which keeps info about where your applications are,
- icons, comment from the info box etc. Well all that it taken up.
-
- What I found out is that after one reformats the HD, you can get about 2-4
- meg
- extra when you choose to repartion the drive. The HD SETUP has a default
- partion setup from Apple. But you can get more by repartioning it.
-
- You can get more info from a MacUser or MacWord a couple of months
- ago...
-
- Il Hyung Cho
- Macintosh Systems Support
- LORAL - Western Development Labs
- Internet: cho@wdl1.wdl.loral.com
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