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Old 08-23-2008   #1
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Default Hard drive confusion

I just bought a new laptop, an Acer Aspire 5920. It was supposed to have a 160gb hard drive. I went into 'computer' today and I see this



As you can see, it is split into 2 partitions, and it seems like nothing is being saved on the second one, is this normal on a Vista, because this is the first time I've really used one.

Also, the hard drives don't add up to 160gb, I seem to be missing 30gb :S

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they all come like that. a certain percentage is never useable. its something about the formatting or something. usually it will say something like "*actual formatted capacity may be less" or something. mine is 120 which is really 106
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lol i have an acer laptop too.
its in your warrentee that you need to keep it partitioned.
don't ask me why.

So you can just use it like an external HDD
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new computers come like that for some reason.
it's like they tell you 160 then you end up with 130 cuz of the partition then you will run outta space faster and have to buy more//
so more money for them
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new computers come like that for some reason.
it's like they tell you 160 then you end up with 130 cuz of the partition then you will run outta space faster and have to buy more//
so more money for them
isnt that... illegal?
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not really lol.
stuff like that happens with all sorts of thinggs
its not illegal
cuz they;ll probably say that the pc needs the partition
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just format the whole thing and do it in like NFTS.. that way you can have bunches of gigs on one partition. whats it right now FAT16?
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isnt that... illegal?
no because there really is 160gb there. its just not all free. if you really really wanted i think you could get 160gb.
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just format the whole thing and do it in like NFTS.. that way you can have bunches of gigs on one partition. whats it right now FAT16?
Probably fat32 no Computer comes with FAT16 anymore
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no because there really is 160gb there. its just not all free. if you really really wanted i think you could get 160gb.
its just like an external HDD you can set it up to back up your original HDD so they get less claims for broken crap hence why its in the warrante.


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