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- From: Apgar@Apple.com (Gar)
- Subject: Re: Questions about Apple formatted hard drives
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Message-ID: <Apgar-201292154148@17.127.11.234>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:45:30 GMT
- References: <5750@gold.gvg.tek.com>
- Organization: Apple
- Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
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- In article <5750@gold.gvg.tek.com>, bryanh@stout.gvg.tek.com (Bryan
- Hilterbrand) wrote:
- >
- > I have a PowerBook 100 with a verrrrrry small 20MB hard drive. The
- > hard drive size reported by the Finder is 18.6MB. I've read articles
- > in this newsgroup that say Apple doesn't format hard drives to full
- > capacity. Does anyone know why they do that? I'm thinking about
- > backing up my hard drive and reformatting it to get the extra space
- > (hey -- every megabyte counts on this small of a hard drive). Before
- > I do that, is the Apple supplied SCSI formatter on the 7.01 disks able
- > to format the entire disk, or will I end up with the same capacity that
- > I have now? I'd appreciate any tips about reformatting the hard drive
- > that you can supply to a (computer literate) Mac novice.
-
-
- With Apple HD SC Setup you can see some information about the HD.
- Click Partitions and then click Custom and then click Details. There is
- usually unused space on hard drives; you will see gray space in the bottom
- of your partition map with the size to the left if you click the Details
- button. You can use SilverLining to increase the partition size on an
- Apple HD SC formatted drive without either installing SilverLining or
- reinitializing (so I've heard...) (I prefer to keep my Apple drives
- Apple-formatted). If you donâ•’t have SilverLining and are willing to
- reformat your hard drive
- you can use this unused space. Open Apple HD SC Setup, Click Partition,
- Select your main Macintosh volume and delete it, then click and drag
- from just below the top partition all the way to the bottom, select
- Macintosh volume in the resulting dialog and then you will not be
- wasting any space on your hard drive.
-
- Apgar@Apple.com | Eric Apgar alias Gar | I said it, NOT Apple.
-