Big Hard Drive?

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 12/16/06, R. Wood <au516 at freenet.carleton.ca> wrote:
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> Allegedly, on Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:13:09PM -0500, Alfred stated:
> > Hi: I needed a new Hard Drive, and decided on a 1/3 of a Terribyte, or
> > 320 Gigs.
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> I just got one of these also.
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> > Then the problem cropped up, my Partitioning Software only sees about
> > 160 Gigs.
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> What Partitioning Software are you using?  I experimented with something
> new (for me) -- 'Gparted LiveCD':
>   http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
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> You boot off the CD and then partition from there.  It's kind of a
> 'Partition Magic', only it is FOSS.  Might be worth a look, as it had no
> problem seeing my 320Gb drive.
>

no need to download another cd: you can achieve the same with an
Ubuntu LiveCD.  It comes with gparted on it.  Just boot with your
Ubuntu Live CD into a livecd session, and select gparted in one of the
gnome menu.


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Daniel Robitaille