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    Quick question about HP customization

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Dabman, Aug 3, 2007.

  1. Dabman

    Dabman Notebook Consultant

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    This is the dv9500t. When I have the choice for hard drives I belive I want the 200GB 7200RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (100GB x 2). Are these two seperate hard drives? or 2 100GB Partitions. and if they are partitioned, can I make it into one big partition?
     
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  2. f4ding

    f4ding Laptop Owner

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    That's two harddrives. In WinXP, you can combine them using software raid, I'm not sure you can do the same with Vista. Maybe it is already configured to be one huge 200GB hdd through Vista, I believe you can call HP and inquire.
     
    f4ding, Aug 3, 2007
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  3. SP Forsythe

    SP Forsythe Notebook Evangelist

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    They ship the systems as two hard drives, and as three partitions. I've never seen any option as to how they would otherwise.

    Partition 1 is on drive one, and is for the OS.
    Partition 2 on drive one is for the recovery partition
    Drive 2 is a single partition and is labeled as for Data.
     
    SP Forsythe, Aug 3, 2007
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  4. panteedropper

    panteedropper Notebook Deity

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    a laptop with two hard drives, what is this world coming to! How heavy is this machine? Its already an 8lb machine, i wonder what the additional HD would bring it upto.
     
    panteedropper, Aug 4, 2007
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  5. suland

    suland Notebook Evangelist

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    Well, but this machine is designed to replace your desktop PC, so it's really great it has such option. There are some laptops with the space for 3 hard drives. And that's even better!
     
    suland, Aug 4, 2007
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  6. SP Forsythe

    SP Forsythe Notebook Evangelist

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    The 7.7 lb presupposes the two hard drives, which is standard. The options pertain to how big, and how fast those two drives are.
     
    SP Forsythe, Aug 4, 2007
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  7. SideSwipe

    SideSwipe Notebook Virtuoso

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    my dv9000t with two hard drives is only 8.3lbs, that is one of the lightest 17" laptops around.
     
    SideSwipe, Aug 4, 2007
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  8. suland

    suland Notebook Evangelist

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    Exactly, you won't find lighter than HP 17-incher.
     
    suland, Aug 4, 2007
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