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    Harddrive inaccuracies?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Steggy, Mar 17, 2008.

  1. Steggy

    Steggy Notebook Consultant

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    Has anyone experienced this with the T61? i have a t61 with vista, 100 gig harddrive. i have like 20 gigs or so left when i have only my programs and no documents on it. its weird, cuz sometimes itll say that i have like 17 gigs left, but then when i delete a file, it says i have 15 gigs left. WTF.
     
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    Hacksaw Newbie

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    Could be a recovery partition, I don't have a T61 but I do have an ideapad Y510 and my HDD is partitoned into 3 parts.
    1.OS
    2.D:\ (not touched on system restore w/ factory install disk)
    3.Recovery partition that isn't shown in Windows.

    250GB total shows as about 230-240
     
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  3. Steggy

    Steggy Notebook Consultant

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    that could be it since its 20/86 gigs. but still, it shouldnt just change sparratically
     
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    Kdawgca rotaredoM repudrepuS RBN

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    Since its vista, it sounds like this:

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=167983-there are other reasons of missing hdd space mentioned in this thread
     
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    SouthPaw42 Notebook Enthusiast

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