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    160 GB HDD -only 136 GB available

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by baia, Sep 7, 2007.

  1. baia

    baia Notebook Consultant

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    Hi,

    My Acer 5920 has a HDD of 160 GB, When I got it, I formatted the whole drive, and did a clean install of vista with my own copy. Reinstalled the drivers my self and so on (Made an Acer recovery disk first aff course, cause you never know). I split the HDD in two parts (53,8 GB and 82,2 GB). So that makes 136 GB. Where is the rest of my GB, I should be able to get at least an other 15 or 20 GB out of it. But missing 24 GB, I think, is a lot, no? Didn't I remove the backup partition from acer when I formatted my HDD (altough I was told it is only 6 GB). Is there still something else on there, or is this just normal?
     
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  2. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    HDD manufacturers assume a Gigi is 10^9 while computers assume it is 1024 x 1024 x 1024. So your 160GB HDD is actually 149GB.

    That still leaves 13GB missing. Perhaps there is still a hidden partition.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Sep 7, 2007
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  3. SideSwipe

    SideSwipe Notebook Virtuoso

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    formatted isnt the same as deleting the partition

    check your drive in computer management and see if there's still a partition leftover.
     
    SideSwipe, Sep 7, 2007
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  4. baia

    baia Notebook Consultant

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    Yes there are 2 other partitions, one of 9,76 GB (EISA-configurations) and one of 3,24 GB (also EISA-configuration) so that's were the 13 GB is, but what are they, and are they necessary?
     
    baia, Sep 7, 2007
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  5. darkspark88

    darkspark88 Notebook Evangelist

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    Somebody from Acer posted this on theAcerGuy blog. It might come in useful:

    In fact if you look at it, the HDD is divided into 4 partitions:
    - a hidden partition needed for the recovery engine
    - partition C: with Vista
    - partition D: empty
    - a hidden partition with Arcade

    The hidden partition with Arcade takes up around 4gb, as the XP operating system apparently has to be installed to run arcade WITHOUT running Vista. Waste of space in my eyes. So the other hidden partition used to recover the system probably accounts for the remaining space you are missing.
     
    darkspark88, Sep 7, 2007
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  6. baia

    baia Notebook Consultant

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    So I still have my recovery partition then. If I remember well, I think I didn't see the partition when I was reinstalling vista (wasn't in the list with partitions). That's why I couldn't remove it. I'll look around on this forum to find out how to delete it.
    thx for your help
     
    baia, Sep 7, 2007
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  7. bigspin

    bigspin My Kind Of Place

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    Stupid....Mine comes with only recovery partition..So No Quick boot Arcade here
     
    bigspin, Sep 7, 2007
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