vista help

i just bought a HP pavilion 2400 and its showing that i only have 24 gigs on the HD.....it should have come with 120. did something mess up with it or is the hard drive partitioned or what?

 

Use the program WinDirStat and find out where all your hard drive space is going. Great program.

 

I had a similar problem, except my 200gb hd was showing like 100gb free, even though it was brand new. I found out that the system restore was set to take up a TON of space and vista wouldn't let me change it. I found a script on Tom's Hardware that will allow you to change the System Restore maximum hd space.

Go to http://steffengerlach.de/freeware/index.html and run the hd scanner. If its results don't match the hd data in my computer, then you should try and find that script on tom's hardware. If the results do match, then something else is the problem.

HP does partition their hard drives, but that should only account for about 8gb.

 

i ran the scanner and it maches. they are both showing only 32gigs....wtf? what else can i try?

 

Is the problem that there is only 32gb free or that the hd is only 32gb in total size?

 

32 total. it should have come with 120...

is there any chance HP made a mistake and didnt put the full 120 in? or is this a vista issue?

 

i just now ran it. its showing 32 total gigs...

 

I suggest going here:
http://h20180.www2.hp.com/apps/Nav?..._client=s-a-R163-2&h_page=hpcom&lang=en&cc=us

Choose your model, and fill out the form.
I have noticed that HP tech support has been really good through the online form/email. Don't try the live chat with a technician, because they try to help you too quickly and end up giving you wrong advice. Email generally gives them enough time to research the problem and find out what the problem really is.

 

I wonder if they put in a SSD drive? They come in 32GB flavours don't they? A bit strange though because a 40GB drive would turn up bigger than 32GB in Windows.
Strange none the less that you're missing so much space.

 

I was thinking of the SSD drive, except I am pretty sure HP doesn't put them in any of their notebooks. All HP computers (laptop or desktop) come with two partitions on the hard drive (both show up in My Computer, but one is for Recovery and is protected my a script so it can't be modified).

I have noticed that HP's hard drives are weird.

On my desktop:
70gb on C drive
5gb on D drive (Recovery)
This doesn't add up to 80gb like it should.

On my laptop:
177gb on C drive
8gb on D drive (Recovery)
This doesn't add up to 200gb like it should.

 

Windows reports HD space differently which is why you'll never see a '80GB' drive with 80GB in windows. I think it goes this way:
Manufacturers claim 80 billion bytes
Windows sees 1 GB as 1024MB as 1024KB as 1024B which makes it less.
I think there is some maths there but I'm not going to multiply it out
But this happens with every drive I've come across (from my 2 laptops to my desktops).
I get about 93GB total as seen by windows from the 100GB drive

 

i think there might have just been something wrong with that particular laptop. i took it back to the store and exchanged it. this one is showing 103 gigs which seems about right for 120 (8 for recovery).

weird.