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    M1530 HDD Problem

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by sganeshcse, Aug 23, 2008.

  1. sganeshcse

    sganeshcse Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi Friends,

    I bought M1530 two months before with the following configurations.

    2.4GHZ, LED Screen, 4GB, 160GB 7200RPM HDD.

    On my HDD, 136GB assigned for C drive and 10GB assigned for D drive.

    In the C drive currently I am having data for 40GB. So the remaining should show 96 GB. But mine is showing 76GB. Where I missed the remaining 20GB.

    Two days before I got Blue screen. After that I restarted. It shown some error message like "Disable Caching or Shadowing on your BIOS setting"

    Pls help me to find out...
     
    sganeshcse, Aug 23, 2008
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  2. glick

    glick Notebook Enthusiast

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    My friend has the same question with his 1530, did you try defraging it? I think that makes a bunch of free space but it takes many hours sometimes
     
    glick, Aug 23, 2008
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    bikerboy94 Notebook Evangelist

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    do a disk clean up and remove all but lastest windows backup(restore points) ive gotten back as much as 16 gigs
     
    bikerboy94, Aug 25, 2008
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    sganeshcse Notebook Enthusiast

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    I tried everything like Defrag, Cleanup, etc...But I was not able to get these space...What I have to do?
     
    sganeshcse, Sep 27, 2008
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    hooligan001 Notebook Evangelist

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    Are you certain that you have the 136GB assigned to C?

    Right click on computer and select manage, then click on disk management on the left hand side.

    Have a look whats there make sure there is no unpartitioned disk space etc. and report back!
     
    hooligan001, Sep 27, 2008
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