Vaio FS115B Problem

Hi there!
This is the first laptop I have bought and I have to admit not knowing a huge amount about computers!
But, I took delivery of a new Sony Vaio FS115B yesterday, which is advertised as having a 60GB hard drive. When I click on My computer, I find two hard drives, a C and D drive. When I click on properties, it says the C drive has a capacity of 14.1GB of which 6.5GB is already used! (I have not put on any software, it comes with win XP installed). The D drive has a capacity of 34.9GB all of which is free space.
My question is what happened to the other 11GB of Hard disk space, and what is taking up 6.5GB of C drive space?

PS the security tag and manual pack were already opened when I took delivery of the notebook.

Sorry if this is a really basic and obvious query, I just haven't got a clue why and am wondering whether i need to return it!

 

A drive is never as big as the quoted size, they round them up. Also, Sony keep a partition of about 5-6Gb for the recovery applications. So unforunately your exoerience is typical.

Steve

Sony A190 WUXGA

 

Hi,

harddisk sizes in advertisements and data sheets are almost always stated in billions of bytes (1000*1000*1000). Whereas Windows (and most other software) uses 1024*1024*1024 (base-2) notation which in case of a 60GB disk would lead to a size of aprox. 58GB shown in Explorer.

The 6.5GB on your C drive are used up by the preinstalled Software (Windows ~ 2GB, Works ~ 1GB, Sony cruft another GB, tons of "i-don't-even-know-what-it-does" software...)

As Raider correctly said there is a hidden recovery partition which is aprox. 6.5GB in size. Sony includes a tool called "Sony Recovery Tool" which will allow you to burn a DVD or CD Image from the recovery partition. After that you can delete that partition and re use the disk space.

HTH

Ciao UloPe