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Hi,

I'm writing regarding the "unused space on hard drives recovered?" article at http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14597. As a frequent user of Ghost, both for work and personal machines, it is quite obvious all this method is doing is corrupting the discs' partition tables.

I'd be curious to know if the person who sent you this ever tried to FILL all partitions of the disc and then verify the data is usable. Basically, you're corrupting the hard drive's information that says its size and telling the computer it's larger-- it will definitely APPEAR that you mysteriously have tons of new space, but it WILL cause corruption and data loss.

I think at the very least you should put even more caveats on that story, before some punter comes by and wipes out all his important data by copying it to his new super-huge-hard drive.

There IS "lost space" on modern hard drives-- they do major amounts of error correction, data redundancies, etc. However, you're not talking anywhere near 50% of space lost. And even if you were-- is losing all error control worth a bit of extra space when you can pick up another 120GB drive for under $80US??

Justin Scott

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Exclusive interviews with the most talented emerging and established artisan jewelry designers, beadworkers and glass artists from around the world.
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- MrJavodotCom commented on Adobe CS4 Details (Bridge, Photoshop, Release Date)
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I really like the following functions:

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I think these are the best features...
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- bullmarketing commented on Lamport Gilbert - Print, Design,Mailing and Project Management.
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- The_Plagiarist commented on [Power Users Only] Double Your Existing Hard Drive's Space Without Compression
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Hi,

I'm writing regarding the "unused space on hard drives recovered?" article at http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14597. As a frequent user of Ghost, both for work and personal machines, it is quite obvious all this method is doing is corrupting the discs' partition tables.

I'd be curious to know if the person who sent you this ever tried to FILL all partitions of the disc and then verify the data is usable. Basically, you're corrupting the hard drive's information that says its size and telling the computer it's larger-- it will definitely APPEAR that you mysteriously have tons of new space, but it WILL cause corruption and data loss.

I think at the very least you should put even more caveats on that story, before some punter comes by and wipes out all his important data by copying it to his new super-huge-hard drive.

There IS "lost space" on modern hard drives-- they do major amounts of error correction, data redundancies, etc. However, you're not talking anywhere near 50% of space lost. And even if you were-- is losing all error control worth a bit of extra space when you can pick up another 120GB drive for under $80US??

Justin Scott
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- PhilsVtX1800 commented on Lenovo ThinkPad W700 for photographers: Digital Photography Review
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This just maybe the best thing possible for most Amateur and Pro Photographers.
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- Kerry commented on Yamaha Turns Cell Phones Into Musical Instruments
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Kinda cool. its like a mashup of Guitar Hero, Wii and the iPhone.
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- StandardsDT commented on 10 Tips for Writing High-Performance Web Applications
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@CyberPhoenix

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Introducing the Palm TX handheld. With built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology, this is the wireless figure you’ve been awaiting.
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- mactep commented on 10 Futuristic User Interfaces
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