New hard disk drive under macintosh

whenever i download something from internet e.g skype, it creates another disk drive sort of thing under macintosh. What is this all about? It starts to show that it has think much total space and this much available with skype name. Isnt it supposed to be just the software name?
Please help!

It's not a disk drive but an icon of the downloadeded file.
For more details http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1148
The "Total space and aviable space" setting is called 'Show Item Info' and be be toogled on/off by in the Show View Options (using the Command-J key-combo to get there).
Stefan

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You must purchase Snow Leopard through the Apple Store: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Apple Store (U.S.). The price is $19.99 plus tax. You will be sent physical media by mail after placing your order.
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Hello my friend
I am a little bit confused after reading your posting. HDD replacement is so simply and can be done by everyone and I don't understand how the service couldnt be able to do this. for this action you need 10 minutes and can be done without manuals or some maintenance manuals.
If you want to do this alone, please follow these steps:
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- place the HDD pack on a flat surface (such as a desk), and remove the two black flat head screws with black head screws
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New Toshiba notebooks are delivered without installations disc but recovery image is saved on HDD. When you start notebook for the first time you will see Toshiba reminder with info that you must create such disc alone using preinstalled Toshiba recovery disc creator. if you didn't create it and now the HDD is defective you have a problem. Either you must order new recovery media from Toshiba or you can use Microsoft installations disc to install Vista.
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You might try using the Restore option of Disk Utility. Basic procedure is:
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Having used my 1Gig Time Capsule for nearly 8 months the HDD failed last week on my MacBook. After replacing the HDD and after nearly 18 hours the HDD was backed-up again. BUT ! ! !.........
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Great!
But . . . you may now have another problem. TM may not delete the "old" backups in the normal fashion. When it needs to make room for new ones, it may start deleting the oldest of the "new" set instead.
You can monitor this via your logs. Download the +Time Machine Buddy+ widget. It shows the messages from your logs for one TM backup run at a time, in a small window.
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See:
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I have read a number of articles about how to transfer a complete Time-Machine backup to a new (larger) hard disk-drive. Some of these articles are specifically for OSX10.6 users, which are not applicable to me since I am operating with OSX 10.5.8.
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Drive Preparation
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2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (for Intel Macs) or APM (for PPC Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
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OS (10.3) from the original installation discs,
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Formatting, Partitioning Zeroing a Hard Disk Drive and Installing OS X
Warning! This procedure will destroy all data on your Hard Disk Drive. Be sure you have an up-to-date, tested backup of at least your Users folder and any third party applications you do not want to re-install before attempting this procedure.
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