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    3810T-6775 only has 28GB of free space out of box!

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Folzie75, Aug 14, 2009.

  1. Folzie75

    Folzie75 Newbie

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    When the Timeline series came out, I figured it was the new laptop that I wanted to get and spent the last month or so trying to decide which version to get. When newegg ran the 13" with the SU9400 and the 80GB SSD I figured that was the one for the price. My old laptop had an 80GB HD in it and I only used about 40, so why would I need a 500GB HD? Well I finally bought it and got it yesterday. I've been playing around with it for a day and was deleting some of the garbage installed on it like 20 games! After a while of that I checked to see how much space was on the HD and to my surprise it said 28.0GB Free of 60.5GB! :eek:

    What am I missing here? I'm going to try and read through some more of the posts to see what others have done to clean up their new computers. Other than that the laptop seems awesome! But what happened to 50 GB of my SSD????
     
    Folzie75, Aug 14, 2009
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  2. AndrejaKo

    AndrejaKo Notebook Consultant

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    Well, the recovery partition uses several GiBs and you have windows installation which can take more than 15 GiBs and on top of that you have various programs which came preinstalled on the laptop. And remember that today it isn't uncommon for programs to leave some data after uninstallation. Take a loot at the size of your Program data directory.

    Right now I can't remember if SSD size is measured in GiBs or GBs. If it is measured in GBs, that means you have about 77 GiBs of unformatted space. Also formatting itself uses some space.
     
    AndrejaKo, Aug 14, 2009
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  3. sosorio

    sosorio Notebook Consultant

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    yup... had the same "surprise here"... recovery partition is 14Gb (3.8 free) and vista and all that bloatware takes up space...

    what did i do?
    got rid of that partition... installed 7 (and all programs i use.. office, corel, etc and all drivers), now i have 74gb total.. and 50 free
     
    sosorio, Aug 15, 2009
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  4. Lumpy05

    Lumpy05 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Run the windows clean up tool also, the windows updates many times create windows restore points. Also if you hibernate there may be a multi GB file for hibernation. I have the restore partition and the factory vista, office enterprise, firefox, powerdvd ultimate, and several other programs and have 28 GB free. You may want to limit the amount of restore point space allowed to windows.
     
    Lumpy05, Aug 15, 2009
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  5. AndrejaKo

    AndrejaKo Notebook Consultant

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    Also keep in mind that if you delete the hibernate file, hibernation could be disabled until the file is manually created.
     
    AndrejaKo, Aug 16, 2009
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