Now, thats a video on abusing 500 Gig Hard drive. Well they do do a good job explaining how a hard disk works. 

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

how to spend a saturday in August

How to get started ?

– Learn how to play poker and win rounds and make friends go awesomed at your luck

Wakeup Time

– Between 11:50 – 11:52 AM(localtime)

Later ?

– Think if you present desktop’s configuration has become close to trash(which was the best configuration when you bought it 5 years back)

– Get frustrated about the 0.5 Gig RAM that recently became a paperweight and plan to buy a new one.

– Get more frustrated about the 80 Gigs of space you have from the past 5 years (which is yet to become another paper weight model ) and plan to buy a better model (ofcourse you want it cheap)

Plan things

Call Up a computer shop where you bought each and every computer piece from and enquire the price of a 0.5 Gig RAM and 0.5 Tera HD
– Bhumika Peripherals (+91-40-6638-2286)
The list of prices I was offered
0.5 GB DDR RAM – Rs. 950
1.0 GB DDR RAM – Rs.1500
1.0 GB DDR2 RAM – Rs.700
320GB Segate HD(Internal) – Rs. 4250
500GB Segate HD(Internal) – Rs. 4450
320GB WD HD(Portable) – Rs. 3750
500GB WD HD(Portable) – Rs. 5250
1 TeraB Maxtor HD – Rs 5000
16 GB Flash/Pen Drive – Rs. 1500
50 DVDs PACK FRONTECH – Rs. 450
10 DVDs PACK SONY – Rs. 170
100 DVDs PACK SONY – Rs. 1300
Information specified above may tend to change and these are the rates I got to know from a friend.

I feel like creating or having a price comparision tool based on user input and findings on seperate days for all the goods people buy often in a forum. Is there already one present ? GRRRR!!

Finally bought 1 Gig DDR RAM , Segate Internal 0.5 Tera Disk and 50 Pack of DVDs from Frontech. The harddisk being of type SATA and I being a non-user of SATA did not even have the least idea that there is a seperate type of power&data cable for SATA harddisks. Got hold of the power cable from @nishant_s .Now formatting my new harddisk after setting up the new extra 1Gig RAM.

How to format a new hard drive that doesnt have even an empty partition table written on it [LINUX]?

• Check that the harddisk is presented and detected by your OperatingSystem : sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
• Hurry up and install gnu parted [gparted
• apt-get install gparted | yum -y install gparted | “google for gparted”
• search for gparted on shell and get annoyed and worried that there is a problem with the gparted binary you installed above
• Login as root : sudo su –
• Realize that gparted command is present and also realize that partitioning can be done with fdisk command (used above) : fdisk /dev/sda | fdisk -h
• Follow and create and write the partition table
• After successfully creating a partition table, you need to format the individual partitions : fcsk -t ext3 /dev/sda1
• Write a blog post while you are waiting for the format to be completed(if you formatting using ntfs)