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    Question about Hard drive

    Discussion in 'HP' started by xodus8, Mar 19, 2007.

  1. xodus8

    xodus8 Notebook Guru

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    I just recieved the dv2000t. I got it with the 60gb hd. I just went to my computer it saids available space 5GB total space 26GB. Is the other part of the HD not partitioned ? How can I begin to utiliize that?
     
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  2. Rager

    Rager Notebook Guru

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    I'd use Everest, http://www.lavalys.com/ to look things over.

    Or a bootable *nix distro, like Knoppix. There's a lot of minimum ones.
     
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    Sorry if this is a statement of the obvious that you've already done: r/c Computer on your desktop (old My Computer in XP), then pick Manage, then pick Disk Management. Check for any unallocated space there. Nice thing about Vista is you can shrink or extend a volume in Windows - unlike in XP. My dv2000t came with only two partitions - C: and the Restore. I shrank C: and added a new partition the first week.
     
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