False Advertising from HP? Help..

I finally got my notebook today and I'm totally happy with it. I scored the $379 HP DV6103nr from Best Buy Everything's working fine and the screen looks great (it's a SEC screen, but mine looks perfectly fine). Anyway, it was advertised in the BB ad to have a 80GB hard drive. The HP sticker on the actual wrist pad of the notebook also says 80GB... BUT, when i went into My Computer and checked out the size of the Local C drive, it only said 61.8GB TOTAL. Same thing with my friend's notebook which he got today too. What's going on here?? What should I do?

Thanks

 

hidden partitions, and system files use up space too.. so 61.8 is about right.

 

Joystik is correct.

My dv2035us (dv2000t retail version) has a 100GB hard drive, but only about 85GB or so are usable, and that's AFTER I got rid of the recovery partition (after I made the Recovery DVDs, of course).

Also, hard drive manufacturers count GBs as 1000MB. Windows counts GBs as 1024. Shaves off a bit of space right there.

 

Yah, I just looked at mine, after uninstalling a bunch of crap that came with the laptop, and having bought this laptop with 100GB, I have:

C: 66.4/80.4 GB free
D: 1.37/11.6 GB free

I know how you feel though, I expected the HP partition to be quite big, but didnt expect to only have 65 GB free space with the laptop basically empty.

I can't imagine people who thought 40 GB would be enough for them, and getting like... 10 GB of actual usable space.

It would be nice if C + D would add to a number closer to 100 though.

 

I see.. Thanks everyone for clearing that up for me Well that saves me a trip from going down to Best Buy to complain LOL

 

If you want the extra space back, you can use Partition Magic (or something similar) to delete the recovery partition -- just make the recovery DVDs first. Then delete the partition and extend your main partition to take back that unused space. I wouldn't mess with your approximately 1 GB Quickplay partition though. Or skip the partitioning software and just use Windows to reformat the Recovery Partition and use it as a small data drive.

BTW, what are the specs on that machine? It's a great price.

 

Do not use PartitionMagic. Best bet is go to Start->Programs->HP Backup and Recovery->Remove Recovery Partition.

 

HP is a big corporation and has lawyers up the ass. Every documentation and packaging specs are reviewed so there is very minimal chance of false advertising. I heard of people frivolously suing because the Ultra100 cables say Master and Slave or a 100 GB harddrive comes out to 93 GB on My Computer (standard & accepted practice) so they have to be careful.

The people on the board are right it is the recovery partition.

 

Just looked at my dv9000t's 100Gb Seagate and it has 92.1 Gb of total space.

Ron

 

You need to get an ambulance chaser and sue, you were cheated out of 8 gigs (lol)

 

Try reformatting and reinstalling a clean copy of windows, it gets rid of all the crappy bloatware and stuff. Also the quickplay uses up about 1 gig of space.

 

Thanks everyone for your input I'm really not worried about getting the hard drive space back since I bought a 250GB external hd.. I just thought I got cut short for a second LOL.. but anyway you guys were right! Thanks again

BTW I've already gone through and deleted most of the bloatware

 

There was no false advertising. When you get a hard drive the actual formatted capacity is less than whatever they say its going to be. You didn't get a 60 gig hard drive, because that would have formatted to a 50.x gig when you started it up. If you want a bigger hard drive get out there and find a deal, cause they'll be around, but remember you're going to lose something in formatting.