The Inq: Unused space on hard drives recovered?

MJOMJO Denmark New
edited March 2004 in Hardware
Here's some very interesting news from The Inq.
Don't know how credible it is though?

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14597
READER WILEY SILER has sent us a method which he said was discovered by Scott Komblue and documented by himself which they claim can recover unused areas of the hard drive in the form of hidden partitions.
Interesting results to date:
Western Digital 200GB SATA
Yield after recovery: 510GB of space

IBM Deskstar 80GB EIDE
Yield after recovery: 150GB of space

Maxtor 40GB EIDE
Yield after recovery: 80GB

Seagate 20GB EIDE
Yield after recovery: 30GB

Unknown laptop 80GB HDD
Yield: 120GB

Comments

  • ginipigginipig OH, NOES
    edited March 2004
    The Procedure is kind of risky.
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited March 2004
    I wonder how the dude found out how to do it?
    If it works, that is.
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    I've got the drives and program but risking my pr0n for 50-110% more space is absurd. :crazy:
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited March 2004
    Yeah, not worth the risk.
    Back it up, and then try the trick. ;)
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Don't have anywhere to backup and not sufficient cd's. :bawling: Damn those full legth movies ;D
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    There is a thread over at MADSHRIMPS reguarding an article at the inquirer ...they claim to use Ghost 2003 to "find lost partitions" on most hardrives whereby doubling the hardrives capacity in some instances. I wonder if this will work ...Tex (the first person I thought of when I read the thread)? :cheers: LOL

    Examples of some results:

    Western Digital 200GB SATA
    Yield after recovery: 510GB of space

    IBM Deskstar 80GB EIDE
    Yield after recovery: 150GB of space

    Maxtor 40GB EIDE
    Yield after recovery: 80GB

    Seagate 20GB EIDE
    Yield after recovery: 30GB

    Unknown laptop 80GB HDD
    Yield: 120GB


    The thread is here.

    The article is here except the url isn't working for me.
  • DexterDexter Vancouver, BC Canada
    edited March 2004
    :bs:

    Dexter...
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited March 2004
  • DogSoldierDogSoldier The heart of radical Amish country..
    edited March 2004
    A lil early for april fools....
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    oops ...admin feel free to delete this thread ...Thanks VoE ...or maybe let Tex read it first!!! LOL :bigggrin:
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited March 2004
    I can't believe the Inquirer was stupid enough to print it. There is no way to increase the aureal density of a drive or the number of sectors. Its fixed. Ultimatley this controls the available disk space. Now you can corrupt a partition table and trick windows into thinking the drive is bigger.... and you will be corrupting data in one partition while you write to another. I have seen corrupted partiton tables on say a 8 gb drive where the three partitons in the partition table totaled 20gb. And you could write to all three OK at first but then as they got farther into the partitons you were corrupting the next one while wrtiting to the first one etc...Some drives also have small amounts of disk space depending on the number of platters and disk space per platter etc.. that can be recovered as they are sorta short stroking the heads. Say 2 to 8gb on a 160gb drive. Not 50 to 100 percent more space.

    Compaq for example used to always have small hidden partitions containing their own utilitys and dignostic routines and crap as a hidden first partition years ago.

    Cheers

    Tex
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited March 2004
    Apparently the thing got slashdotted also....

    Here was a post from a claimed ghost developer...

    "I'm a Ghost developer.

    This is just a method of corrupting your partition table so the same disk sectors appear more than once. If you try this, don't ask Symantec for help afterwards."

    Gee sounds very similiar to my explanation above but I'm no ghost developer... just a nice general understanding on how a hard disk works is needed here although being a ghost developer has more credibility.

    Tex

    P.S. Whats more this thread doesn't have "Tex" written all over it.... That was "Rex - The Wonder Dog" or a better cartoon characxter for this thread would actually be "Felix the cat with his amazing bag of tricks". You know ... he puts a 200gb Sata drive into the bag and pulls out a 500gb drive. Thats called magic folks. Not tech data. Now how many of you really believe in magic?
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    It was so fake it was unture. Why on earth did anyone actually believe it?!
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    but santa claus still brings me presents every year!
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    kanezfan wrote:
    but santa claus still brings me presents every year!
    .. and the easter bunnah!
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited March 2004
    Ouch... I just pulled a new dual Opteron server out my butt too.

    Tex
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    They get everywhere don't they?

    I just took delivery of my Infineum Labs "Phantom" console as well ...
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    I just saw the strangest thing on the news. Apparently there's a giant pig flying over the Battersea Power Station.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Threads merged :)
  • qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
    edited March 2004
    "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

    (Albert Einstein)
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited March 2004
    Too many skeptics! I know how it's done.


    1) Find two working IBM Deskstar drives.

    2)
    ...prof's :bs: detector flashes wildly...

    Oops... Forgot - there ain't two working Deskstars in the whole wide world...

    Sorry! :wave:
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