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Old 03-28-2006, 09:24 AM
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My first one was a 20MB 5.25 inch full sized monster from Seagate back in 1989...

Of course, back then it was rare for programs to take more than a few 360k floppies.



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The first computer i was ever using was a Commodore 64, which has no hard drive at all, just 5 1/4 floppies and a little RAM.
My first comp with a hard drive had a 2.5GB hard drive running Windows 3.1



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My first hard-drive had 800 Mb. I remember giving it away to later find out that was a silly virus messing with sectors.



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Ouch Juanzo, 800MB was probably quite expensive then. some virus infections can really mess up boot sectors. Still, good old FDisk and reformat should have been able to fix it.

Pre IDE days you had to do a real low-level format before even using FDISK and then regular format.

I don't think you can low-level format IDE drives, but maybe you can.



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my first one i think was 60GB. It was prettty good for a first comp.



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