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    100 GB 7200 RPM HD on E1705

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Viperjts10, Nov 20, 2006.

  1. Viperjts10

    Viperjts10 Notebook Evangelist

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    My space on my hard drive seems to substantually be filling up quickly and it even seems that with my 100 GB hard drive, if I hover over my C: drive, it'll only say I have XX free space OUT OF 86.4 GB hard drive. What's up with that. I get a 100 GB hard drive and 15% is unavailable even after formatting my computer.

    Well anyways, I'm nearing under 50 GB of space left and I was hoping it's possible to somehow purchase more space or get another hard drive on the E1705 Inspiron Laptop I recently purchased. Is there anything I can do because I'm pretty sure that as space fills up, programs start to run slower.
     
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  2. Reezin14

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    Look into getting an external HDD.
     
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    Is it possible to just add a hard drive to my current notebook so it doesn't have to be external...?
     
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  4. Gator

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    Two things may be the cause: 1) 100 GB from the hard drive manufacturers is really 93.1 GB from the way your operating system reads it---has to do with the definition of a GB and how many bytes are in it. Obviously the HDD manufacturers like to represent more (100 GB HDD sure as heck sounds better than 93.1 GB HDD). 2) You probably have different HDD partitions, one of which may be a hidden "recovery" partition. If you insert a WinXP installation disk and reboot, you will see the number of HDD partitions you have and be able to rejoin them all into one huge partition if you wish.
     
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  5. zolo

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    Your best bet if you want to replace the internal HDD is to go with this 200GB 4200RPM to replace the internal 100GB since you can't add another hard drive there, which's going to cost you around $250
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822149059
    But, what I'd advise you to do is to get an external hard drive, you can get 500GB or even 750GB external hard drive for that same price if you wait for a good deal on the 750GB.
     
    zolo, Nov 21, 2006
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  6. Pitabred

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    Math lesson time: software manufacturers like to count in Base2 numbers. Hard drive manufacturers use Base10 (what we're all used to). So, a GB to a software company is 1024MB, whereas a GB to a hard drive manufacturer is 1000MB. So basically, a 100GB hard drive will contain 10^11 (100x10^9), or 1,000,000,000 bytes. However, 100GB as far as software is concerned is 2^30 bytes, or 1,073,741,824. This causes the discrepancy you see, and the actual "gap" just gets larger the bigger the drive is.
     
    Pitabred, Nov 22, 2006
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