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    question about hard drive size of Inspiron 1520

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by CrashOverride, Nov 28, 2007.

  1. CrashOverride

    CrashOverride Notebook Consultant

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    I've ordered Dell's Inspiron 1520 with 120 GB HDD and got my lappy a week ago and it came with only 106 GB hard drive and 95 GB of free space on it (I assume that Win XP Pro and Media Direct and all other junk from Dell take about 11 GB of Harddrive space)

    Is it normal or does HDD have to be 120 GB in size? I just want to know what happend with this 14 GB of HDD space ( difference between 120GB and 106GB)
     
    CrashOverride, Nov 28, 2007
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    majortom1981 Notebook Consultant

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    There are some other aprtitions that dell has on the harddrive that you cant see. One for a restore and one for media direct. Thats where the other space is.
     
    majortom1981, Nov 28, 2007
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    gonpost Newbie

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    If you format the drive, you can take back all of that space.
     
    gonpost, Nov 28, 2007
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  4. majortom1981

    majortom1981 Notebook Consultant

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    He would have to repartition the hdd not just reformat it.
     
    majortom1981, Nov 28, 2007
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  5. CrashOverride

    CrashOverride Notebook Consultant

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    well. 95 GB is more than enough for me, but I'm still going to format and partition HDD to get rid of the junk ( didn't know that restore part and media would take a huge 14 GB space considering that Dell already wasted 11 GB of the space i can see) basically its 25GB of HDD space for Dell's junk and 95Gb for me, which is not acceptable
     
    CrashOverride, Nov 28, 2007
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    bobob Notebook Enthusiast

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    i had 100gb of free space in my 120gb 7200 rpm drive when i received my 1520.
    i have window xp home though. reinstalling the OS from the cd should be the best option for you.
     
    bobob, Nov 28, 2007
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    It's partially a recovery partion and probably Media Direct, which is worthless if you use sleep instead of shutdown.
     
    surfasb, Nov 29, 2007
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