Resizing Nobbled Hard Disks

Some companies replace the defective disk with a larger capacity drive, and encourage people to buy an upgrade by nobbling large drives to make them behave like smaller, older drives. This technique enables the 40GB hard disk to be nobbled into a 3.2GB disk. Unfortunately system rewards the creation of scarcity so it makes it economic sense.

You can find computer retailers warranty hard disks when a disk goes wrong, they often no longer have such a small drive available. Functionality is sensible within the perspective of profit maximization; it is undeniably a waste of the world's resources, so we started this project to help users reverse the change made, restoring such hard drives to their original size.

Here is a list of capacities, manufacturer codes & model numbers of drives known to be affected, so that users who have a nobbled drive can quickly find this page and learn how to restore the disk size. A 40GB hard disk into a 3.2GB disk money system rewards the creation of scarcity so it makes 'economic sense: Ethical companies would just replace the defective disk with a larger capacity drive, but some encourage people to buy an upgrade by deliberately nobbling large drives to make them behave like smaller, older drives:

Destroying functionality is sensible only within the selfish perspective of profit maximization; it is undeniably a waste of the world's resources, so we started this project to help users reverse the change made, restoring such hard drives to their original size. Here is a list of capacities, manufacturer codes & model numbers of drives known to be affected, so that users who have a nobbled drive can quickly find this page and learn how to restore the disk size:

It is easy to detect a nobbled drive, first you have to look on the disk for the manufacturer's size. In most of the modern drives, it is mentioned whether, the drive is nobbled or not. In the older days, the nobbled drives were found out by calculating to the number of cylinders, heads and sectors, which found clearly on the disk. For example, you got a hard drive if the specification is such: assuming Heads=16 and Sectors=63, the size in MB is equal to about half of the number of cylinders. You may use Disk Druid to check your HDD size under labels and BIOS records first, and then repartition it.

Remember to select file system type. In some of the operating system such as Unix, there is a less danger of repartitioning a HDD than in Windows for every resource. You can create new partition under un-partitioned space; you are at the risk to destroy your system. By repartitioning you can delete any partitions, unless you know what you are doing. These projects are intended to help limit the demand for new hardware by helping people get the most from their existing hardware.

The logic of this profit motive provides no incentive for companies to provide such information, although it is clearly useful for mankind as a whole. So, before going for any hard drive ensure that the disk is nobbled. Most of the companies provides the information on the disk and should be read carefully before going for any hard disks.

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