FREE: WD Scorpio Blue Sata Laptop Harddrive 320 GB

Ya I dont get that. Seems to be the same on my Flip Video 1 hour recorder. IT actually only records 45 minutes. Lol. When your only getting 1 hour every minute counts, but it runs off of a internal hard drive, so either it has some bad sectors or they just didnt give me the full hour. Could have sworn when i first bought it it had 1 hour. But ya, i see it on alot of different devices that use a HD.

Has to do with the definition of megabyte. A megabyte is considered to be a metric measurement of 1000kB. But in reality a megabyte is an exponential of the integer 2. So intead of having 1000kB = 1mB there is 1024kB = 1mB . As the size of the drive increases there becomes a certain estimation of how much space is available in a drive. So a 160gB drive is created as 160,000,000kB , but that is not equal to 160,000mB, so it is reduced to whatever you end up with.

I know that's a rough explanation but it has to do with the misconception that 1mB = 1000kB.

So, with a 320gb drive...

320,000,000,000 bytes / 1024 =
312,500,500 Kilobytes / 1024 =
305,175.78125 Megabytes / 1024 =
298.023223877 Gigabytes

As soon as I confirm this will work on a laptop im repairing, and my auctions end in a couple days, ill use the Get It Now. Its a little high I think for this size HD, but I need a good working quickly so ill scoop it up. My only concern is that you might have an Autorun virus on the drive, which even during formating, it creates a partition on the drive that hidden and cant be formated, then it reinstalls an autorun virus on your computer. Most are harmless and can be blocked, but they're very difficult to remove. Its often easier to just get a new drive, lol. Google autorun virus's. It would explain the 20GB missing, or it could just be some bad sectors. But somethings there, most likely just a partition with a oem copy of windows probably.

I mean im probably wrong, and you obviously know what your doing, and thats not going to stop me from bidding, but the only reason i bring it up is because I currently have an autorun virus i cant get rid of. It goes onto all portable external drives i plug in, including thumb drives, external HD's, etc, so im transmitting it to friends by giving them a movie on a thumb drive. Its spread to all my external drives, my thumb drives, etc. Ive researched how to delete it, but i could only find ways to make it inactive and contain it. From everything i read it cant be deleted, which i find hard to believe, lol. But it basically does what i said above, makes hidden partition, stays there during a format, then pops back up like nothing ever happened. Its a good one, lol.The PC repair tech up the street said he can take care of it, but its expensive just to do my computer, never mind now i need my PC's main HD, my two external HD's, my two thumb drives, and my laptop now, lol. So i think im going to buy a bunch of replacement drives, and replace EVERYTHING all at once. Starting with this hard drive u have listed. I just hope its clean, or im back to where i started, lol.

Fanned ya and bidding......

Is the HDD still under manufacturer warranty?

Fanned and watching, I can always use more space!

Well if you want to I can check HDD's under warranty if you are unsure how to. I did lots of RMA's on Hardware.

Your very welcome any time.

And @LukeScooto, there are two different options you can use to clean up an infected drive such as yours.

The first is the download a bootable CD image of a linux distribution. This will start your computer off running a virtual operating system in your memory and not on the drive. Format the drive as linux file system (ext2/rfs). After the format completes, abort the rest of the installation and then reinstall windows, during which it will reformat it to a windows file system (fat/ntfs).

Secondly, go to your drive manufacturer's website and look for their Diagnostic Tools software. There is a version you can download and burn to a CD that will boot the computer the same way as the first method I listed. There is generally an option to "zero out" or "write all zeros". Do that, then reinstall windows.

The reason I list this here is that it is also an excellent method to wipe a drive of your personal data prior to selling it/giving away.

hey guys...just a little foot note.. if you want to really clean the HD run the Oder version of FDISK and Kill all partions from the drive and recreate the primary drive and then format the drive and see what happens...

Hmmm, thats interesting akjeff. I dont know why i didnt think of that. But I know FDISK use to be a command line function on win 95/98, but will that even work on XP, which is what I would be using.

Your explanation of the bytes is right kenny, not sure why i didnt think of that, which I knew a MB was 1024, but I didnt think that over 320GB it would reduce it to 300GB, but it obviously does. Or I figured the manufacturers would know that and compensate extra GB to make up for that. Guess not though. As far as the complete deletion of that autorun virus, i might give that a try. Im not 100% ready to format my computer right now, i have alot of info on it, and will need to some how get most of it off, without getting the autorun off with it, which I dont believe is possible. My main concern is my pictures and videos, which I can put on 1 external HD, but obviously the autorun virus will go to it also. Then I can clean up my computer, but not sure what to do about all my pictures and videos on the infected external hard drive. I guess I can possibly burn the pictures to a disc, but the 500+ dvd rips i have that wont be possible. The PC guy up the street, its a repairshop, says he can get it off my computer and drives ,but what that costs i can buy another drive for my PC anyways. I guess its worth paying to remove it from the external drive with all my pictures and movies on it though. I cant afford to lose all my daughters and famliy pics. Its unlike any virus ive ever seen before, so im stumped. It unfortunetly might come down to paying this guy. I wish there was just a virus removal disc i could put in the computer and it would remove it easily. But my antivirus didnt even pick it up, (AVIRA), I came across it looking on my drive one day, and had to google it. I found a program called Autorun Eater that keeps it contained and from transmitting out, but wont remove it. All methods i found online dont work as far as removeal. Its like solving a puzzle, lol.

O, not sure if i asked yet but do you know what laptop this came out of? Was it an HP do you know? I know they're not all the exact same size and im trying to find one to replace my daughters mothers burnt out HP laptop HD. This would be a nice one. Or I can put this one in mine, and take the one out of my dell maybe and put that in hers? Not sure if that will all work like that, lol.