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    vista clean install issue (hard drive partition)

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by hatchoo, Jul 18, 2007.

  1. hatchoo

    hatchoo Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just did a clean install on my hp dv6000t and when i got to the part where i can delete the harddive partition, i chose to delete "disk 0 partition 1" and "disk 0 partition 2 (vista recovery)". upon deleting it i clicked on "New" and when i got to the part where it's asking me how much disk space, it only went up to 152GB (my laptop has 160GB). after the installation was completed i checked my harddrive and it only has 149GB! if you look on the pic below you can see that the capacity is 160GB but it only says 149GB next to it.

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    does anyone know what happened to the 11GB? how can i get it back? thanks in advance.
     
    hatchoo, Jul 18, 2007
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  2. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    useless post the companys saying 160 gb like this
    1000kb=1mb,1000md=1gb,etc in reality
    1024kb=1mb,1024mb=1 gb, etc
    so the total space is less
     
    Thomas, Jul 18, 2007
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    R4000 Notebook Virtuoso

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    149GB sounds correct, as any 160GB drive I've had showed the same..........
     
    R4000, Jul 18, 2007
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  4. hatchoo

    hatchoo Notebook Enthusiast

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    cool, sounds good to me. that's actually what i thought the first time, but i kinda doubted it because 11GB is a lot to lose so i guess i got a little bit worried. thanks for the replies.
     
    hatchoo, Jul 18, 2007
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