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    New Laptop Hard Drive Question

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by jg123, Feb 14, 2008.

  1. jg123

    jg123 Newbie

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    I just bought a new aspire 5920 and the specs say "320 GB HDD" - oddly enough when I look at 'computer' it says I have 2 hard drives, one is 144 megs and the other is 140 megs. Is this some type of partition that Vista does automatically and where are the other 36 Gigs?
     
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    Lao Notebook Evangelist

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    You won't see 320 GB. I don't know how many GB you'll see, but you can try right click on My Computer/Manage and see the HDD and the partitioning there.
     
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    It just shows:

     
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    Hi jg123!
    In first place, though HDs are stated as 320Gb, that's not exactly true, as the convert to Gb divideing by 1000s, instead of 1024s. So, a 320 Gb hard drive is truly aprox. 298Gb of real capacity.

    And then, on your HD there will be (on ACER 5920G) at least 2 hidden partitions with the recovery image of the VISTA operating system as installed originally by ACER.

    First, I would recommend, is go to eRecovery (Alt+F10) and burn a copy on 2 DVDs of your recovery, so in case you loose partitions, at least you're able to reinstall your system.

    Greetings from Tampa, FL.

    tariro
     
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