121Gb out of 160gb!

Sup I just got M1530 today. Need to get it exchanged for a new one, was not assembled proberly. But besides that it only has 121gb avaliable out of 136gb. Then it has an extra 10gb recovery think. What is that? Almost 40gb is unavaliable out of the box.

Any way i can format it and reinstall everythink?

 

could you please post some pics of the issues you found on your M1530. That might be helpful be helpful to many NBR readers.

 

However large the initial HDD size is, it will lose some space from formatting. After that, the OS takes some space plus all of the apps installed. You have a 10gb recovery partition, so there goes 10gb from the start.

The initial 160gb just as 1 partition formatted is less than 150gb usable for the OS. Minus 10gb for the recovery, you're down to say +/- 138gb for the Windows partition. Vista takes a lot of room, so now you're down to around 130gb or so. Minus Dell's bloatware and other apps and you're at 121gb.

 

maybe you should learn something about computers before you start b1tching and complaining about getting screwed.

And yes there is a way you can reinstall windows. There is a search bar on this forum that will lead you to your answer.

 

The problem with the laptop was that the bottom panels were not installed proberly. The bigger panel(the one with Microsoft offical sticker thing), one of the corners with the little hinge that is suppose to fit on to the bottom of the laptop was bent and the corner was sticking out about 1cm from the rest of the laptop.

Sorry if that didnt make sence, just one of the panels was bent from the corner and sticking out. Also one of the screws was missing. Also the computer did not start out of the box. I had to take out the ram modules and reinstall them.

Dont have a camera to take pics with.

Tryed to format. It keeps saying it cannot be performed

 

What do you mean you tried to format and it couldn't be performed? How did you do it?

If you go into Control Panel and open up Administrative Tools, and then click Computer Management. Once you're in Computer Management click Storage, then click Disk Management. It should open up a program where you can format the recovery partition and un-partition it from the main partition.

Once you're in Computer Management click Storage, then click Disk Management.

You could get to the aforementioned tool by doing Start, Run, then typing diskmgmt.msc


Just a little piece of advice: you cannot format your Windows partition from inside of Windows, so if you're trying to do that, then that's why it won't allow you to.

If you want to reformat the entire machine and reinstall a fresh copy of Windows pop the Vista DVD into your laptop and boot from the disk. There is a disk utility that allows you to create, delete and format partitions.

 

Go to my Clean Install below and follow it step by step!

 

Quick note - You'll never have the full "quoted" 160GB. The most you'll ever be able to access will be about 149GB, or properly written as 149GiB.

Why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
A bit of a read, but very informative.

 

1cm is ALOT. I'd like to see a pic of this considering the hinge is like half a centimeter at the most. Was there any other assembly issues?

 

No other then what ive already stated there was no other issues. No camera,so i cant take pics.

Thanks for the help very informative!

 

Can’t really picture what is wrong with the chassis, but if there is something wrong, then DELL will replace it.

Even a camera phone would do.

BTW you cant format the system drive within Windows, (if that is what you were trying to do)

 

clean install of vista.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=109447