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    100 Gb gone?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by lashgari, Feb 28, 2008.

  1. lashgari

    lashgari Notebook Enthusiast

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    I decided to upgrade to leopard, so i erased my hd clean, albeit leaving the XP, 30 gb partion untouched, and upgraded. When it installed, it says:

    Macintosh HD:
    Capacity: 117 GB
    Available: 84.48 GB

    Untitled:
    Capacity: 31.73 GB

    totaling to around 149.05 GB

    the funny thing is, I have a 250 gb harddrive.

    I ran disk utility, and it found no problems, so.... what the hell is going on
     
    lashgari, Feb 28, 2008
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  2. nizzy1115

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    Are you sure you have a 250gb hard drive? Your sig says 160gb, which would make 149.05gb total make sense. Are you a bit confused?
     
    nizzy1115, Feb 28, 2008
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  3. burningrave101

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    I don't follow. Where exactly are you saying 100GB is gone? Looks to me like your MAC partition is 117GB and installing Leopard used up around 32GB. Does Leopard really take up that much space?? I don't know since I don't have a MBP yet. But then you have your other 30GB XP partition which if you add to the 117GB would give you 147GB and that's about what a 160GB hard drive is after it's partitioned.
     
    burningrave101, Feb 28, 2008
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    no, system requirement for Leopard is only 9 GB so there's no way it can take up 32GB.
     
    Arquis, Feb 28, 2008
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  5. Leon

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    His sig says that he has a 250 GB harddrive.
     
    Leon, Feb 28, 2008
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    Just wanted to mention that I'm pretty sure there aren't any 2.5 7200RPM 250GB laptop harddrives yet.

    You're either using the 200 GB 7200 RPM or a 5400RPM 250GB.

    No offense to OP, but I think you might have been confused about the size of your HDD.
     
    dtwn, Feb 28, 2008
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  7. NAS Ghost

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    Hmmm...i didnt know they made 250s at 7200 rpms for laptops...

    Or he could have a 160 at 5400 especially seeing as those arent exactly rare.
     
    NAS Ghost, Feb 28, 2008
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    Well, I wanted to give him either the 250 or the 7200 RPM. Not that it's particularly important.
     
    dtwn, Feb 28, 2008
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    I think he has a 160 because his sig said it was 160 til he changed it....that makes things look a bit shady.
     
    NAS Ghost, Feb 28, 2008
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  10. lashgari

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    So ill offically put on my dumba$$ hat, my sig should say Hitachi 200GB 7200rpm
     
    lashgari, Feb 28, 2008
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    Modly, Feb 28, 2008
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    lashgari, Feb 28, 2008
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    Does apple have hidden partitions that they put on their laptops?
     
    NAS Ghost, Feb 28, 2008
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  14. lokster

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    a 200gb hard drive isnt exactly 200gb my 160gb is really 149gb

    there was a thread here somewhere about what your hard drive space is really like
     
    lokster, Feb 28, 2008
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    Yea, the odd thing is that his 200 GB's 149, which sounds more like the 160 GB HDD.

    I haven't heard of the Mac OS mysteriously devouring huge amounts of space. Good luck solving this.
     
    dtwn, Feb 28, 2008
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  16. burningrave101

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    lol We've gone from thinking he has a 160gb drive to a 250gb drive to now a 200gb drive. The greatest mystery to solve is just what hard drive he for sure has.
     
    burningrave101, Feb 28, 2008
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    The most logical answer would be that he has 160...especially if Modly is right.
     
    NAS Ghost, Feb 28, 2008
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  19. hollownail

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    Except late 2007 model MBP did not come with Leopard installed.

    But yeah, sounds like he has a 160 gb drive.
     
    hollownail, Feb 29, 2008
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  20. Modly

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    I don't see why it wouldn't come with Leopard, they released the late 2007 models in November (two weeks after Leopard came out). Maybe they didn't, but you do see why I'd think they would.
     
    Modly, Feb 29, 2008
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