Vaio Z12 128GB drive is only 108GB capacity?

Hi guys,

I'm a newbie here. I hoped you could help me out with a couple of questions I have about my new Z12.

I just bought the Z12v9e/x which is suposed to have a 128GB hard drive but when i check the C:/ drives properties its states '81.9GB free of 108GB'. That's 20GB short, and presumably some 20GB of bloatware. why is this?

Also I cant seem to hook my 1920x1200 display up with HDMI-DVI. It only works with VGA-VGA any ideas?

Thanks

 

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Because you don't get whole 128GB usable space. It acts like any other HDD.
There is also a recovery partition which is taking space.

 

Thanks ahsan.mughal,

I wondered if it was something along those lines but thought 20GB would be a bit greedy. Oh well thanks for your help. Any ideas about the HDMI-DVI issue?

 

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That's mostly because of recovery files on a hidden partition. I am not really sure about it's size, but your free space sounds about right.

I haven't tried HDMI-DVI, so I can not comment on that. I have always used HDMI-HDMI and worked fine. Maybe some one else can chime in on that issue

 

The recovery partition took 11GB.

Unlike Dells which come with an easy utility to delete the recovery partition and automatically assign the space reclaimed back to your C drive, I have not found such a utility on the Z. I have to use a utility outside of Windows to delete it, when I get to blowing out the stock OS and reload my own.

 

You said that external display only work with VGA-VGA connection. Were you in speed mode when using HDMI connection ? because HDMI is only active with the NVIDIA card.

 

I've tried it in speed mode and used the Nvidia control panel where the display is detected, just no signal on the screen.

I've had success with my TV using HDMI-HDMI its just the HDMI-DVI that doesn't seem to work. There's a display port on my monitor, is it worth getting an HDMI-DISPLAYPORT cable?

 

Start --> Control Panel --> Admin Tools --> Computer Management --> Double-click storage --> then double-click Disk Manager....

That should show all partitions, hidden or not. And once you delete a partition, you can right click on the main one and expand it over the empty space.

 

What exactly is the "Recovery Partition"?
Is it associated with the making of the Recovery CD's? and if so, once the CD's are made, theres no need for the Recovery Partition, true?

 

Yes diskmgmt.msc shows the partition, but it cannot delete it. Must use other partition management utility.

 

Something in your Windows installation must be running a file off of that drive that is a system process. Interesting. Vaio Care maybe? Anyways, which partition managers are you considering?

 

Google how to delete recovery partition. There is absorcific command you need to use in diskpart.

 

BEST FREE Partition Manager Software for Windows supports all 32-bit & 64 bit Windows No-server OS.

Is great free app for altering partitions. Just like Disk Director only free

 

Don't forget that even without recovery partition, the system sees 1024 Megabytes as a Gigabyte, 1024 Kilobytes as a Megabyte etc while a 128 GB Drive has 128,000,000,000 Bytes. So effectively you have 7.4% less space out-of-the box.

For additional information, see the terms GiB (Gigibyte = 1024 based) and GB (Gigabyte = 1000 based).

IMO, that GB stuff (a computer works with GiB) is only for marketing purposes.