Software suggestion for more hardware space

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by Miss Gorgeous (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Saturday, 06-Oct-2007 2:13:55

If I was a software designer, I would create a software that could reformat the size of a USB drive. Hey, does anyone know of a software that can reformat the size of a USB drive or a hardware drive?
Thanks

Post 2 by Voldemort (Account disabled) on Saturday, 06-Oct-2007 13:54:00

What do you mean reformat the size? The size is the size. I don't think you can add size.

Post 3 by Miss Gorgeous (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Saturday, 06-Oct-2007 17:53:12

oh okay, cause i thought i could increase the size. Oh well.

Post 4 by Voldemort (Account disabled) on Saturday, 06-Oct-2007 18:30:06

No, I think that is hardware, not software. you can free up space, if there is stuff on the drive, but I don't think you can add space.

Post 5 by smudge (the Zone BBS remains forever my home page) on Sunday, 07-Oct-2007 12:23:52

or you could compress, which would equals more room on the hard drive.

Post 6 by Voldemort (Account disabled) on Sunday, 07-Oct-2007 12:47:04

Yes, but that isn't necessarily creating more space.

Post 7 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Sunday, 07-Oct-2007 20:55:21

and doesn't that slow the machine down or have things got better since the days of the drivespace utillity?

Post 8 by Voldemort (Account disabled) on Sunday, 07-Oct-2007 21:11:03

It does slow the machine down considerably, especially if you have many programs. If you don't have much on your machine, compression wouldn't do too much in the way of freeing space, and it wouldn't really slow up your machine much either.

Post 9 by wildebrew (We promised the world we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?) on Monday, 08-Oct-2007 5:29:45

Well, considering you can get a terabyte usb hard drive for $230 I really would havedifficulty seeing why you'd need more space, even the usb key drives now come in 8 and 16gb configurations. 500gb drives can store some 5 to 800 movies, depending on format and quality, over a hundred movies in full dvd quality, that's more than enough, you'd think, for quite a while.