angry at hd space

i bought a hp dv6152eu and i recieved it yesterday it was advertised as having 100gb hd space which was fine to me i knew that xp would probably take up 20gb so i knew that i would actually recieve a 80gb hd what i did not expect was that it would be 60gb apparently becos hp put a recovery bit into the same hd its called "HP_RECOVERY" and has a seperate drive letter so now ive started with 60gb which i am not pleased with, does anyone know how i can get that space back is it possible?

P.S. does anyone know how to remove all that software on the desktop such as the aol isps cos i looked in add or remove program in control panel but it is not there?

 

One you burn the recovery disks, you can format the partition, then use a third-party software to merge it into your C drive (I'll let someone with more knowledge list the best software).

Or you can just use the D drive as a separate storage drive without having to work on partition stuff.

P.S. does anyone know how to remove all that software on the desktop such as the aol isps cos i looked in add or remove program in control panel but it is not there?

It's not software. They should just be links that you can delete and that's it, since they're not listed under Add/Remove.

 

Yeah, you can delete the recovery partition once you have burnt the recovery discs. Do not delete it before burning those discs. You can then (if you want to) merge the partition with C: using a partition manager like Gparted live CD. As for as the AOL shortcuts on the desktop they are just shortcuts to the installation files for AOL, MSN etc.. You can delete shortcut as well as the installation folder located in C:/Program files/Online services/.

 

Do a search of the forums for bloatware to get plenty of info on deleting unwanted programs that come pre-installed.

There's a tool called PC De-Crapifier that some folks have used and reported it works well. You can Google for it.

 

i ordered 80gb but i only have 64gb. 100gb down to 60gb is way too low

 

hey, that's not something to get angry with.

You still get all the same space...

Why there are so many space-paranoid new users?

 

What amazes me is people don't get mad about the GB=1024^3 vs GB=1000^3 thing any more.

Using up the space on the drive I can understand.... redefining a gigabyte to make it larger than it really is I never got.

 

Actually, the 1024^3 is the correct definition of a GB. Just ask your computer.

The manufacturer's are just rounding to 'prettier' numbers in order to get ya. A 92.5GB hard drive doesn't sound as nice as a 100GB drive.