Hi Forum members,
I used these Notebook boards a lot when I ordered my Fujitusu n6010 two years ago. I still love that laptop, except for the very annoying loud fan. I recently ordered a Dell 1505. It is much quieter than the Fujitusu. Here are my specs.
Intel® Core 2 Duo T5600 (1.83GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 667MHz FSB)
Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium
LCD Panel 15.4 inch UltraSharp Wide Screen WXGA+ Display with TrueLife
Memory 1GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHZ, 2 DIMM
Video Card 256MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON® X1400 HyperMemory
Hard Drive Size: 120GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
I received my new laptop earlier than expected. The excitement soon ended when I turned it on, and the screen was fuzzy, and unreadable. I can't really explain it, but it's colors were weird and it almost had an electrostatic appearance. I could barely read the words on the screen. When screen was black, you could see little sparklies in it. Could it have anything to do with my video card?
Anyway, I called Dell, and they had me run some tests on it, and agreed that the screen needs to be replaced. They are sending me a new computer, so I am happy so far.
One thing I am concerned about is the size of my hard drive. I ordered 120 GB. When I clicked on the properties of hard drive c: it shows that I have 99.7 GB total capacity (10.2 is being used, 89.4 free). Then it shows Recovery d: has 9.99 GB total capacity (3.71used, 6.28 free). Could someone please tell me where the other 10.31 GB are?
Thanks in advance,
Amy
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dont worry about it, it is on every HDD... -
Yeah, its for the backup partition. I removed mine and got the space back.
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Actually, I think she's asking why the sum of the two partitions isn't 120 GB.
It's because the hard drive manufacturers measure capacity in decimal gigabytes (1 gb = 1,000,000,000 bytes) and Windows measures it in binary gigabytes (1 gb = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 1073741824 bytes).
See here for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte -
thats what i kinda meant by slack space
just dont worry about it Amy, EVERY HDD you buy will have the same thing, nothing to worry about.
im supposed to have a 160gb HDD, it says total for my C:\ is 136gb...
then my recovery drive is 9.99gb (lets say 10)
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Just to tell you what exactly the "slack space" is lol. It would be for the installation of Windows Vista which takes up about 10GB of disk space, and the backup partition takes about up about another 10.
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Thanks everyone for your help. Sometimes I just need people to tell me to relax and not worry about things. Swarmer, you did understand what I meant. I just didn't type it very well. I wondered why I only had about 110 GB total available before the recovery and OS system stuff was taken out. Thank you for the link. I will take a look.
Amy
Dell 1505 hard drive question
Discussion in 'Dell' started by HelpAppreciated, Jun 6, 2007.