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Subject: Hard drive space
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jason31 3.02.10 - 12:09am
I brought the toshiba l500 1cq it says it has 250 hard drive space but when i look into my computer its got this drive c 96.6gb free of 116gb and drive d is the recovery thats 110gb free of 116gb so how can my laptop be 250gig on the hard drive * +
acid2004 3.02.10 - 01:06am
116 plus 116 sounds pretty close to 250gb to me * +
jason31 3.02.10 - 10:28am
So how is it 250gig then when i get 116 gig * +
nfxcr3w 3.02.10 - 10:33am
look on the hard drive for jumpers cause if there set wrong they can limit the amount of space you have correct them and should be fine * +
acid2004 3.02.10 - 12:12pm
jason your hard drive is split into two partitions, as i said earlier add both sizes together and what do you get? * +
stnkhorn 3.02.10 - 01:10pm
It's a binary thing which I can't be arsed to explain, plus there's resered space for your recycle bin, other user's 'My Documents' aaaaand probably other stuff. * +
stnkhorn 3.02.10 - 01:11pm
Partition magic's good too
Probably a good idea to back up anything important before you merge your partitions though. *
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