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    Not enough Gigs on 7510

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by trakiec, Oct 6, 2005.

  1. trakiec

    trakiec Notebook Enthusiast

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    My hdd came with 90 Gigs instead of 100. Does anyone know where the 10 gigs went and how can i get them back ?
     
    trakiec, Oct 6, 2005
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    howardpm Notebook Evangelist

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    There is 10 gigs on the hidden partition that holds the rescue information
     
    howardpm, Oct 6, 2005
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  3. trakiec

    trakiec Notebook Enthusiast

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    i reformatted the hdd and installed a fresh copy of XP pro. Shouldn't the 10 gigs have appeared ?
     
    trakiec, Oct 6, 2005
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    scottman Notebook Guru

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    Did you delete all the partitions first and create a new one? And you shouldn't see exactly 100Gb, probably a little less. But if you have reason to keep the rescue partition, you might want to.
     
    scottman, Oct 7, 2005
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    Also, another problem could be that you misunderstood the gb rating on Hard Drives. 100gb is unformated space. When you format a hard drive you lose space.
     
    AngelOfProgress, Oct 7, 2005
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    Mantis85 Notebook Geek

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    Dont forget sometomes when u get things such as flash drives, like my little 256MB flash drive only holds up to 240MB, u cant forget about formatting for the device in order to use it, thats takes up space too... Then again, 10 gigs is a lot sort of so, I could be wrong...
     
    Mantis85, Oct 7, 2005
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  7. skriefal

    skriefal Notebook Consultant

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    Not only is 100gb the unformatted space, you also have to realize that the drive manufactuers effectively "lie" about the size of the drives. When they say 100gb, they're basing that on a gigabyte being 1 billion bytes. This is actually incorrect -- a gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes. So a drive quoted as "100 gigabytes" by the manufacturer will in most cases actually be only about 93.1gb.
     
    skriefal, Oct 8, 2005
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    Sometimes the recovery partition is hidden and you can't see it even DOS. If this is the case you'll have to turn it off in the bios.
     
    ZaZ, Oct 9, 2005
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