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    Got a new laptop but half of the harddrive is already used?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by xTaill22x, Mar 21, 2009.

  1. xTaill22x

    xTaill22x Notebook Guru

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    I just got my laptop yesterday and it works great. I got the 128gb SSD. I went to my Computer and it said that my hard drive only has 50% of space left and that there is only 106gb when I ordered for 128gb. Is there something wrong? Vista only uses 19gb but it says that 40gb was used and I looked through all my programs and they definitely do not all add up to 40gb. So now I'm left with only a 60gb hard drive when i payed for 128gb. What's the deal?
     
    xTaill22x, Mar 21, 2009
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  2. whizzo

    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    backup/recovery partition?
     
    whizzo, Mar 21, 2009
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  3. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    For one, 128GB is not actually 128GB.

    Dell always ships with a recovery partition, which will account for some stolen space. Vista also reserves around 10-15% of drive space for shadow copies of files, which you can/should disable as shown in the Vista tweaks thread.
     
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  4. Cin'

    Cin' Anathema

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    Cin', Mar 21, 2009
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  5. Nition

    Nition Guest

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    My 128GB SSD is 119GB once I've removed the other partitions. Also, long gone are the days when Windows 95 took up 70MB of space.
     
    Nition, Mar 21, 2009
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  6. paper_wastage

    paper_wastage Beat this 7x7x7 Cube

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    use vlite to remove stuff if u want and reinstall...
     
    paper_wastage, Mar 21, 2009
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