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New laptop

  • 01-03-2008 6:22pm
    #1
    waster81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 749 ✭✭✭


    hi just bought new laptop from dell inspiron 1525, got it in two weeks not bad considering what some people have expeirienced.
    went to check hard drive see much memory was been used and saw there is 26 gb been used up. Since its brand new little confused as to what could be taking up so much memory. Looked at properties on the hard drive and windows takes up 8.3 gb guess thats vista for you, program files take up 1.44 gb, there are small bits in other folders but where is all the other memory been taken up any ideas!!!
    cheers


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  • #2
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    What size hard drive did you buy?

    A 200GB hard drive is 120000000000 bytes. This is based on 1GB being 1000000000 bytes. Windows will measure 1GB as 1073741824 bytes. Due to this a 200GB hard drive only appears as 186GB of usable space in the operating system. It's a little confusing to the uninitiated but the drive manufacturers use the scientifically correct interpretation of 'giga', 'mega', 'kilo' to mean 1000 times where as due to historical convention computer systems treat these as '1024' times (2 to the power of 10).

    On top of this Dell will probably have added a recovery partition that takes up a few GB.


  • #3
    waster81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 749 ✭✭✭waster81


    got 160gb when go into properties shows have 2 hard drives one OS(C:) 110Gb free of 136 Gb and Recovery d: 5.66Gb free of 9.99Gb does that add up?


  • #4
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Yes, it seems fine to me. The discrepency is due to how different factions define 1gb.


  • #5
    waster81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 749 ✭✭✭waster81


    cheers mate


  • #6
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    That said, it still doesn't explain how Dell manage to ship a new laptop where their install takes up 26Gb of actual formatted disk space.

    If you have 2GB of RAM then 'pagefile.sys' and 'hiberfile.sys' will probably take up 5GB or 6Gb between them.

    Do Dell by any chance pre-load some software with a load of media samples these days?

    (I wouldn't touch Vista with a barge pole myself so perhaps this is just the standard space waste these days)


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  • #7
    waster81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 749 ✭✭✭waster81


    yeah have 2gb ram deleted all the sample movies and music didnt make much difference


  • #8
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    What is your system restore folder at? It should be on the c: drive and will be a folder called "System volume information".


  • #9
    waster81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 749 ✭✭✭waster81


    hi cant find that folder cheers anyways might get onto dell see what they say


  • #10
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    That's what it's called in xp, it may be different in vista.


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