Boggle

[ffutures]

I've just got hold of a 2nd hard disk at £23 for 40gb, or about 51½ PENCE a gigabyte.

Think about that - I've just paid considerably less for a gigabyte of storage than I used to pay for 32k tapes in my ZX-81 days, 80k floppies in my TRS-80 days, than for 360k floppies then 1.2mb and 1.44mb in my earlier PCs. In fact floppies still work out at about 20p a megabyte, well under a 250th as good. The last hard disk I bought, only three or so years ago, was £40 for 6 gig.

As I said. Boggle...


One practical problem - can't seem to find the XP version of fdisk on my hard disk, and fdisk is a pain to use anyway. Can anyone recommend a good freeware utility for setting up the partitions etc.?

LATER EDIT: Now sorted thanks to mr_wombat

Comments

[mr-wombat.livejournal.com]

There isn't really an FDisk for XP, it doesn't work if you use NTFS anyway (least not the one I have)

Go to: Start, settings, control panel, administrative tools, computer management and then the Disk Management item in the list on the left. If XP has noticed the disk and it's all set up and connected right (master/slave configurations and whatnot) you'll see it on the right. Right click on it, select format, pick your options and go have some tea.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks - that seems to be doing it.

I was about to yank the disk and fdisk it in a windows 98 machine, good thing you stopped me!

[mr-wombat.livejournal.com]

I've never actually encountered a free one anyway, some trial versions but buying them costs somewhere in the region of 50 dollars.

[sirernest.livejournal.com]

It might be that fdisk is one of the utilities that can only be accessed from the WinXP repair console. For that you have to boot from your WinXP CD.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

It gets kind of ridiculous when you compare current stuff with long-ago stuff. jennyaxe's new phone has more than thirty thousand times as much RAM as my old ZX81 had, for example. Not to mention a much faster CPU, and vastly better graphics and sound.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Yep. My watch probably has considerably more RAM etc.