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    About m1530 disk partitions. (160GB)

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by BenLeonheart, Jan 18, 2008.

  1. BenLeonheart

    BenLeonheart walk in see this wat do?

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    Was I the only one who got this:

    • 78MB healthy (EISA Confguration)
    • RECOVERY (D:) - 10.00 GB NTFS Healthy (Primary Partition)
    • OS (C:) - 136.47 GB NTFS Healdy (System, Boot, page File, Active, Crash Dump, primary Partition)
    • 2.50 GB Healthy (Primary Partition)

    Ehm...
    if you add that up, you get like... 149 GB...
    Where's the other 10?

    Anyone? :p :eek:
     
    BenLeonheart, Jan 18, 2008
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  2. elpaw

    elpaw Notebook Enthusiast

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    elpaw, Jan 18, 2008
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  3. BenLeonheart

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    crap, true that.

    *has been pwnd*
     
    BenLeonheart, Jan 18, 2008
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    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    Its ok, you're not the first, and wont be the last.
     
    nizzy1115, Jan 18, 2008
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    With a 160Gb HDD, Given the standard Dell partitions detailed above and OS installation, What was the total free space remaining for a users data or additional programs?
     
    rp7dev, Jan 19, 2008
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  6. BenLeonheart

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    around 120 gb
     
    BenLeonheart, Jan 19, 2008
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