SZ 330P hardrive showed only 105GB- Help !

I just bought SZ330P and when I checked hardrive, it showed only 105 GB Total space, with 95.1GB free space on C drive. I thought it's supposed to have 120GB hardrive. It's missing 15GB?

The d drive is for Memory Stick. E drive is for CD/dvd.

 

Its probably a hidden/recovery partition that sony uses instead of giving you a recover cd.
Also take a look at this thread
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=44587

 

Yeah, Vaios have hidden partitions on which they store the data from the recovery disc.

 

Go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management. You will be able to see the detail partition of your HD. If you add up the partition sizes, you may still have less than 120 GB. That because Windows defines 1 GB differently than the manufacturer of your HD. Windows may define 1 GB as 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes (based 2 number) while your HD manufacturer defines 1 GB as (10^9 = 1,000,000,000 (based 10 number).

FYI, my HD is specified as having 160 GB but total HD capacity as reported by Windows is 143+6 = 149 GB.

 

I did as you suggested and looked into my Disk Mgmt. It showed 6.01GB (eisa config) plus c drive 105.78 bringing total HD to 111.79GB ---short of the 120HD specification capacity. I'm assuming eisa config of 6.01GB is the hidden partition you're talking about. Do you suggest I delete/reformat the hidden partition? What is that for anyway?

Sony loaded plenty of junk trial softwares too. I'm deleting these crap thru Add/Remove on control panel. There are these pinball game, ms messenger that don't seem to get deleted. Do you know how?

Thanks for reply.

 

Kookie, check the other part of his reply. Now divide 120/1.073 and you get...

 

Iced Tea,

it came out to 111.83 GB after dividing 120GB/1.073. It is just off by.004. Thanks for explaining. I just thought Sony cheated me out of 120GB I paid for. newbie here, pardon my ignorance

 

Unless you absolutely need that space taken up by the hidden partition, I woudl strongly recommend keeping it. If you browse around these forums, you'll find lots of instances where people need to re-install some driver on their computer but deleted their partition ----- which contains the drivers (or whatever) needed.

Make sure you create your recovery disks. At that point, you should be able to (in theory) delete the partition ----- but I'd still recommend keeping it around, just in case.