Increased HDD Capacity

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Mr Green

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How do you change the capacity of a hard disk?

I don't mean, how to you simply resize a partition. What I want to know is how to increase and decrease the volume size.

I increased my old IDE drive's capacity from 17.3GB to 30GB, which slowed it down tremendously. I resized it down to 18.6GB, which worked fine. That was a decade ago, using BIOS and simple DOS tools.

I recently purchased a 64GB USB2.0 flash drive, which I suspect to be a fake, due to its low performance. As I got it quite cheap, I'd prefer to resize it down to a size that'll work.
 
size has nothing to do with performance. Performance is tied to a couple of things.
1. interface
2. memory controller (SSD and Flash keys)
3. Latency (HDD)

so basically your drive is performing badly due to one of a few reasons.
1. You might have a USB2 drive in a USB1.1 port.
or
2. You might have a drive with a insanely slow controller.
 
Its not just slower performance, its also got some data loss.
Controller is fine, and all ports on my computer are USB2 and USB3.
 
Where did you get the drive from and what did you pay for it? There were a lot of fake drives of that size out a couple years ago.
 
johnb35 said:
Where did you get the drive from and what did you pay for it? There were a lot of fake drives of that size out a couple years ago.
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I got it from ebay, and I suspect its USB counterfeit oversized, which is quite a major impact on the drive's performance.
 
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S.T.A.R.S. said:
Wow...all my USB ports are 1.1.Wanna trade :D ?
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it's time to upgrade lol.. u are getting data transfer anywhere from 1.5mbps to maybe 12mbps at most

2.0 = 480mbps
3.0 = 5gbps

I only have 2.0 ports on my emachine, but would love 3.0 ports

as for the USB drive.. is it best to format to NTFS or to leave as FAT32?
 
Junglist0682 said:
it's time to upgrade lol.. u are getting data transfer anywhere from 1.5mbps to maybe 12mbps at most

2.0 = 480mbps
3.0 = 5gbps

I only have 2.0 ports on my emachine, but would love 3.0 ports

as for the USB drive.. is it best to format to NTFS or to leave as FAT32?
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Yea well I love my 15 years old PC lol.Wouldn't trade it for any other :P

And yes I know USB 1.1 transfer speed is slow.I usually get 4.3 MB/sec the most IF I AM LUCKY lol.....and that is very rare xD

USB 3.0 at 5 GB/sec?!?!?! Sh!t man that's a lot! :D

As for the file system...choosing between FAT32 and NTFS really depends on what you are doing on your system.If you are using DOS a lot then FAT32 will be better since NTFS is not supported under DOS unless if you use NTFS4DOS which rules!
If you are using a lot of encryptions,compressing files larger than 4 GB in size and having LARGE hard disk drives with large partitions and use the most modern OS then NTFS is definetely a better solution,but even FAT32 will work just fine.
But like I said...it really depends on you and things you do.

Hey by the way...anyone here has USB 1.0 ports :D ?
 
It doesn't matter what version of USB port it is.
Same for OS.Unless if you are running old OS such as Windows 95 and 98 which cannot show BIG external drives (or at least not the entire partition size.Unless if you use some special drivers for it (if there are any)).

Did you try erasing the entire drive using KILL DISK?

That will delete absolutely everything 100% on the entire drive.If that doesn't work then you have a drive with fake capacity.

Where did you get the drive from anyway?
 
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