New SSD Question and Toshiba Installed Bloatware

I bought a new 80gig Intel SSD with my R705 protege laptop at Best Buy. Got a couple questions.

First - I installed the drive, and after using the recovery disks on the new SSD - it's only showing about 63gig of total space (43gig free). I have the same drive on my desktop, and it shows 75gig total space. Did toshiba recovery disks not use my full drive partition when it installed everything?

Second question - how much of this Toshiba bloatware do I need? I noticed after the recovery disks, without anything else on windows 7, it has installed almost 20gig worth of stuff. I know the operating system is only 3-5gig, so the other 15 or so is pure Toshiba bloatware crap. I plan on uninstalling EVERYTHING, but want to make sure I don't take something off that I need. Is there anything worth keeping?

Thanks for replies in advance.

 

If you look at your partition table, it probably created the second, recovery partition.

 

I think your right.

Is there a way to get rid of that and get my full 75-ish gigs? I think it's kind of dumb for it to create a recovery partition when I have the recovery disks.


*edit - actually I just checked it out, and it only used 1.46gb for the recovery partition and there was another 10gig random partition that the disk recoveries did not allocate for some reason. So I just deleted it and extended the primary.
Now to figure out what bloatware to keep and delete.

 

dump demos and trials. Norton, office, games. The rest is pretty much drivers and are ok. Tho you may not want all that stuff to autostart depending on how you use your computer. I don't use the "flashcards" "webcam bar", etc. Use the Folder migrate util to move your profile to the D drive and set a program files and program files(x86) folder on your d drive and use it for ALL of your installs as possible, unless the app is something you use ALL the time and need it fast, then install to the SSD. Even at 75Gb, you'll be tight sooner than you want.

 

Oh yeah, DO NOT set autodefrag or diskeeper if you own it to defrag the SSD. SSD does have a finite life cycle, no sense defragging it and using up those writes....

 

I'm seeing like 4-5gb of Toshiba apps, like random disk utilities, diagnostics, monitoring etc. It's all Toshiba branded apps and its taking up a lot of space when I look at the folders in explorer. I'm thinking about taking all of it off as I don't see a need for ANY of it, maybe other than the "ECO" mode thing it has.

 

Toshiba's recovery discs are absolute crap,dell gives you the OS disc with NO bloatware and a seperate disc for drivers/apps
Not Toshiba they lump it all together in get this...5 DVD's for the 705
That fact alone makes me almost want to return this laptop