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    U330 with WRONG hard drive shipped!

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by minuya, Sep 28, 2008.

  1. minuya

    minuya Newbie

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    I ordered my U330 with 320gb and I got 280 INSTEAD!
    Check your hard drives people! How the heck did this happen??
     
    minuya, Sep 28, 2008
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  2. jmayer88

    jmayer88 Notebook Geek

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    they use 40 or so GB for the onekey recovery partition

    your drive is perfectly normal
     
    jmayer88, Sep 28, 2008
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  3. sleey0

    sleey0 R.I.P. AW Side Topics

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    Ummm.. They don't make 280GB HDD's, AFAIK.

    Maybe you have a 320. Windows and the recovery partition can sometimes take up quite a bit of space....
     
    sleey0, Sep 28, 2008
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  4. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    HDD manufacturers think Giga mean 10^9, but computers count in binary and think Giga is 1024^3.

    That knocks the capacity down to below 300GB. Then there's likely the hidden (recovery?) partition.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Sep 28, 2008
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    sleey0 R.I.P. AW Side Topics

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    OMG!!! W T F BBQ!!! I ordered a 3TB HD and it shows as only having 2,500,000,000 MB available!!!!~
     
    sleey0, Sep 28, 2008
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  6. Dumpduck

    Dumpduck Notebook Consultant

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    That's perfectly normal, like everyone else states.
     
    Dumpduck, Sep 28, 2008
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