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So when i install vista business 64bit edition...

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by kazaam55555, Feb 19, 2009.

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  1. GKDesigns

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    I would delete and format from scratch. My install notes may be of some help.

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    everything went perfectly fine, although i got a bsod when installing the ethernet drivers. so i just uninstalled and reinstalled and everything was fine.

    thanks!!
     
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    Personally, I don't delete it, because if your OS becomes unbootable then it can boot to this and run some tools to repair it (system repair, system restore, chkdsk, etc.). At least I think it's that partition... not 100% sure though.
     
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    I would look into it and confirm what's there. There was a 'factory image recovery partition' on my E6400 with nothing useful in it. Dell confirmed there was no factory image and/or recovery available, so I wiped it. I left the small EISA partition which I think is only used for diagnostics, not recovery.

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    question, this hdd is listed as 250gb, but i see only 230gb. i thought they only did that for oem drives...this is just like how they say something is xxGB but turns out to be a bit lower because of they way manufacturers vs. actual specs list bytes, right?
     
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    Probably right. Some possible reductions:

    o Rated 250GB base 10 but actually measures 244.14GB base 2 as would be reported by the OS.

    o You lose some capacity to formatting. Could lose some capacity to defects/bad sectors? And boot sector malware? :D

    o You lose some capacity to any miscellaneous OEM partitions. Look in disk management to see all of the partitions on the HDD.

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    When a HDD manufacturer says 250 GB, it means 250E9 bytes. 1 GB to them means 1E9 bytes.

    When the OS says 1 GB, it is 2^30 bytes, or 1.073742E9 bytes. If you do the math, you'll find that 250 GB on a HD is the same as 232.8 GB on the OS. So you are not short-changed. The recovery partition is about 2 GB.
     
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