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post #21 of 22
1/17/07 at 4:17pm
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Originally Posted by Kakaze
If you keep the original drive the best thing would be to get an enclosure. You can use the original drive as a second harddrive that way.

I don't know if SuperDuper will copy the windows partition but there are other utilities that should do it.


Thanks Kakaze. Yeah I bought an enclosure for the original hd. Weird, but when I did the hd swap, it said that my 120gb seagate drive had 111gb free capacity after formating it. Is that normally the case with hd's? This is before copying the os and everything to the new drive.
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post #22 of 22
1/18/07 at 1:55am
Yes, it's normal. It's because of a giant scam perpetuated by the hardware companies...computers measure data in binary which is all on multiples of two. That's why a megabyte to a computer is 1024 kilobytes and not a solid 1000 kilobytes as defined by the metric system.

The hardware makers use metric definitions instead of binary even though all their hardware is going to be going into a computer that uses the binary definitions. Because of this your harddrive actually has less space on it than advertised because binary bytes are larger than their metric counterparts.
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