Just received my E1505 and question about hard drive..

Hi,

I am a proud owner of the E1505. It is great. I used Marckmck to delete most of the crap that was installed...I am very happy.

Just one thing though, I click on my computer and see a C: drive and then a D: drive. My C drive says its total size is 65.1 ,and then the D drive says its total size is 21.8. This doesnt add up to the 100 gb that i ordered though...? Help?

Also, should I delete the D drive? Should I delete norton ghost too? Is there a way to check that I have a 7200 rpm drive?

Thanks!

 

Hard drive manufactures measure their drives in billions of bytes instead of 1024KB for every MB, and 1024MB for every GB.

You aren't getting less space than advertised, it's just that Windows is showing you how much space you are getting in base-2 instead of base-10.

If you look at the drive's properties, then you'll see that they give you your advertised space (minus space used to hold the master file table).

 

everything dagamer34 said plus this...

1. the math (1000 vs 1024 as mentioned above)
2. hidden partitions; 3-4 GBs for the restore partition, 2ish(?) for media direct

 

ahh thanks a bunch. Is there a way to make sure that i have a 7200 rpm drive?

 

Take the hard drive out and it should have the manufacture, speed, and size right on the label. It's only 1 screw you need to take out. Google it if you need instructions on how to do it.

 

Or just look at it in the device manager (Control Panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager). It will show the exact model number, which you can then look up online.

 

ahh thats much easier incandenza. thanks! I found out it is a hitachi travelstar.