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    New T61 came with 30gb of pre loaded stuff

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by johnlyu, Oct 1, 2007.

  1. johnlyu

    johnlyu Newbie

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    i'm trying to install ubuntu the linux OS
    and my C;// says 74gb free of 105gb which means 30 gb was in use
    and when i tried to partition the drive i could only get
    30gb apart from it
    so i went and saw the properties of all the things in c://
    but they only add up to 12.3gb
    how could this be?????
    is the only way to clean install vista?
    because i don't have the CD for it
     
    johnlyu, Oct 1, 2007
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  2. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    Remember that the Vista OS takes a huge amount of space, so the remaining 17.7GBs are taken by Vista and quite possibly backups/hibernate.
     
    adinu, Oct 1, 2007
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    kckevin Notebook Enthusiast

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    The restore partition also takes up several GB of space.
     
    kckevin, Oct 2, 2007
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  4. michelkenny

    michelkenny Notebook Geek

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    11gb on mine.
     
    michelkenny, Oct 2, 2007
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