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    M50VM-A1 Harddrive....

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by @+i, Aug 30, 2008.

  1. @+i

    @+i Newbie

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    Hi, I got an Asus M50VM-A1 that is supposed to have 320 GB of space. However, when I open My Computer, it lists two drives for space:
    DATA (D: ) - 139 GB free of 139 GB
    VistaOS (C: ) - 129 GB free of 149 GB
    139 + 149 = 288. So where is the rest of the 32 GBs. Vista is already using 20 GBs but why am I missing so much? Btw, I ordered this from XoticPC. Please explain this to me.
     
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  2. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    It's down to hard drive manufacturers lying about disk sizes - they class 1GB as 1 billion bytes as opposed to 1024*1024*1024 bytes (1,073,741,824)

    Gigabyte (GB) = 1,024 Megabytes or 1,073,741,824 Bytes

    320,000,000,000 / 1,073,741,824 = ~289.09
     
    Andy, Aug 30, 2008
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  3. killermojo

    killermojo Notebook Guru

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    I have a related question, do you know where the recovery partition is? I hope it's not on C or D.. I just formatted those.
     
    killermojo, Aug 30, 2008
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    Will1989 Notebook Geek

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    The recovery partition is usually hidden. Formatting the C and/or D "drives" shouldn't have affected it. You can check to see if it's still there by opening Vista's Disk Management application (found in the Control Panel). And removing the recovery partition isn't necessarily a bad thing because ASUS includes recovery CDs with their notebooks. Deleting the recovery partition was the first thing I did with mine.

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    As mentioned earlier, there is a hidden recovery partition that ASUS pre-loads onto their ensemble notebooks, which takes up about 10GB. Also mentioned earlier, when you buy any hard drive, you'll never have access to "all" of the advertised space.
     
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  5. Gotei 13

    Gotei 13 Notebook Evangelist

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    Does anyone know if Hitachi 5K500 series hard drives will fit in the M50Vm HD slot? I heard it is thicker than an average hard drive.
     
    Gotei 13, Aug 31, 2008
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