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    md7818 u partition

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by dennis1977, Apr 19, 2009.

  1. dennis1977

    dennis1977 Newbie

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    Does this notebook come with the hard-drive pre-partitioned by default? I had one where it wasnt, but the computer overheated, so I brought it back and got another one. This one has the hard drive split into a C and a D drive, one for "OS" and one for "DATA". The 500GB hard-drive is essentially divided in half between the two and I am wondering if Best Buy's Geek Squad gave me a pre-optimized computer without my knowledge. The first PC had just a C drive with all of the hard-drive capacity dedicated to that.

    Thoughts and comments appreciated.

    Thanks in advance.

    Dennis
     
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  2. Tehkun

    Tehkun Notebook Evangelist

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    Its just a partitioned hdd. You can take it away, or use it. Well atleast your half way dual booting. My brothers acer aspire x3200 came with his hdd split in half two. I dont know why, its only like a 120GB hdd, so the partition was useless and I just took it out when i installed XP on it. The only downfall is if you fill the C:, you will have to start changing where you install things such as game to D:, because most applications automatically try to install into the C: directory.
     
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    dennis1977 Newbie

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    Then I guess the question is why was the first one just C and the second one has a C and a D?
     
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  4. Tehkun

    Tehkun Notebook Evangelist

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    I dunno. I guess its just a random occurence. Maybe they decided to make the partition and store the recover stuff on the second half. Who knows.
     
    Tehkun, Apr 19, 2009
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