just go my dv9000T, 100gb 7200rpm HD?? (ST910021AS)

Ok this maybe a dumb question. But I just picked up my dv9000t, I ordered a 100gb 7200rpm hard drive. When I check the drive properties I get the model number as ST910021AS.

http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/1,1081,670,00.html

as you can see, the model number matches up with the correct HD. Now when I check the available space of the hard drive it basically says 66gb free of 80.4gb total size.

Like I said, this might be a silly question, but can someone please confirm with me that what im seeing is legit. Maybe someone else with a 100gb 7200rpm hd. As a note, Im more concerned about having a 7200rpm hard drive as opposed to having the space. So is there any way i can confirm that my HD is running at 7200rpm?

 

The missing space is probably taken up by two things:
1.) There are restore or recovery partitions hidden on your disk. They are nice for going back to a "factory restore", but rob space.
2.) Disk manufacturers count a gigabyte as 1000MB, but Windows counts a gigabyte as 1024 MB.

Speed-wise:

I bet you got the correct drive. If the model numbers match up, you are probably fine. If in doubt though, just pull the drive out and take a look at the sticker.

Cheers.

 

well i popped open the hard drive and sure enough the same model number is on the HD. I guess it just seemed odd to me that all that space was being taken up for something else.

oh well, I guess I wont worry about it too much.

thanks vespoli

 

I ditto the above..


To the vespoli,
Mfgs rate the drives UNFORMATED... After the drive is "formated", you'll see about 93-94 gig useable

Out of that, you have the recovery partition which will eat-up about 8-12 gig (12 gig for XP Media Center Edition)
an then you have a 1 gig+partition for QuickPlay (about 200mb for ver 1.0, 1gig for 2.0.... and more for later versions I'm sure.


After that you have the OS itself, the apps, all the bloatware, temp files, swap files, hibernation files...


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I am not sure if I understand you right. But having 80.4gb total size out of a 100gb drive seem low to me. I would expect that you should have around 90gb available. The most likely reason your low number is because you didn't fully partition the drive. Go to Disk Management in control panel and check on your drive. Or just type compmgmt.msc from Run. I bet you have something left out!

 

ehh i dont know, the c: is 80.4, then theres a d: 11.6gb for hp recovery.

im not too worried, ill just ride it out until vista comes out and hten ill fully partition everything and do a fresh install.