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- From: rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Richard Sucgang)
- Subject: Re: reformatting Apple HDs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.235211.15818@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:52:11 GMT
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- In article <5750@gold.gvg.tek.com> bryanh@stout.gvg.tek.com (Bryan Hilterbrand) writes:
- >I have a PowerBook 100 with a verrrrrry small 20MB hard drive. The
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- Indeed! Not for a primary storage, although adequate if you primarily
- do word processing.
-
- >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
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^--------> No, I don't think anyone does :)
-
- >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
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- Yes, it is possible to use Apple's own HD formatter which came in the Disk
- Tools disk of Sys7.0.1 to get a larger partition. I did that with my
- PB100, and it worked like a charm!
- -rich
- Richard Sucgang : Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology Columbia University
- (sucgang@cuhhca.hhmi.columbia.edu | rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu)
- "...Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, individually, collectively or otherwise."
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