7811FX 200g HD or (2x) 80g HD?

I've had my refurbished 7811FX from TigerDirect for a couple weeks now, and it's been running great.

However, when I look at the hardware, it says I have (2) 80g hard drives, not a single 200g. Anyone else have this problem? Is it simply a single drive with 2 partitions? How can I find out?

Thanks,
Dave

 

same here but 2 x 88g. everone has these. rest is hidden recovery partition.

 

One way to find out is to open the HDD cover on the bottom of the laptop.

Perhaps tigerdirect replaced the original 200GB hdd with something else

 

So it's actually a 200g drive with 2 partitions plus the hidden partition?

Not clear on what you're telling me.

Dave

 

What he's saying is that you can't tell unless you open the HD cover on the bottom. It's not dangerous or anything. It's just got 4 screws holding it in there. I'd say it is a single drive with 3 partitions though.

 

yes. 200gig is the standard size for the 7811 HD. a lot of pre-built comps have hidden partitions so if any problems arise u can restore the comp to its original out-of-the-box state. u can also create a recovery cd with all the drivers, apps etc.
search around for how to delete the hidden partion and if u want to merge the two partitions.

 

Before I format my hard drive, I had 10gb partition for recovery and two more for C: and D: I believe it was around 80gb each..

 

Yeah every 7811 comes with a 200gb 7200rpm hard drive (Seagate Momentus i believe) Gateway has set it up in two partitions 80ish gb for OS and apps and 80ish gb for storage and a hiddend recovery partition 10ish gb. This is meant to be a performance machine and HDDs run fastest in the outer rings so installing the OS and apps on the first partition will keep it a little snappier while storage partition on the inner rings will consistantly be slower.

I suggest you leave it that way unless you know what you are doing and have a better plan; such as small OS partition, bigger apps partition, and the rest storage partition.

 

Has anyone deleted the hidden partition? I'm trying to right now using disk management, but when you hover over it and right click, the only option is "help".

I've imaged my drives so i have no need to for the hidden partition. How can we accomplish?

 

Yes that is good info... Gateway sets up the 200 seagate that way... Each partition is 88+ gb... The first partition is drive c-the 2nd partition is drive d the cd/dvd drive is drive e---and when you add your 2nd 200gb seagate like I did it assigns the 2nd hdd as drive f...

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