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    My Hard Drive

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by pt618, Apr 14, 2007.

  1. pt618

    pt618 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I ordered a e1505 with 120 GB Hard Drive. But when I recieved the system my C:/ drive is only 99.7 GB and My ReCovery Drive is 8.9 GB, Is this correct or did they configure it wrong.
     
    pt618, Apr 14, 2007
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    wobble987 Notebook Virtuoso

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    that sounds about right. it has something to do with bits and bytes and disk format. disk size is reduced when you format it. the format file system reserved some portion of disk space for file system use.
     
    wobble987, Apr 14, 2007
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    AmberZep Newbie

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    The 120 GB drive in my 6400 reads that it has a total of 106 GB's. It's odd, my desktop computer shows the hard drive to be the size it should
     
    AmberZep, Apr 14, 2007
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    lilredfoxie Notebook Evangelist

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    dont forget about the Media Direct partition as well, that will eat up space as well
     
    lilredfoxie, Apr 14, 2007
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