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Old 05-11-2006
Hard Disk drive space gone missing...

Sorry if this is totally the wrong place to post this but I have a question or something rather thats bugging me. I got a new Dell Inspiron laptop the other day and I was expecting it to have 80G on it, well atleast 70 or so after installation of OS and such but after looking carefully yesterday, I realised that it only had about 63G of space on it.

is that normal, surely not, I mean the capacity says that its 75G or near that number when I check but I did ask for 80G and I ended up with only about 65G. Has Dell Shafted me or is it common/normal? I would imagine yuo don't need more than 20G to install the OS do you, it has some software on it too but none of the software takes up more than 300M and when I go to add/remove applications, I can't see anything thats taken up so much space.

Where is my space?

another question, now this is relating to unix, main reason why I wanted 80G was so that I can partition the HD and install linux on it 2, so inaffect have 2 OS, should I be expecting a lot of trouble with this since I have never done it before? Any hints or tips will be greatly appreciated. Windows Home Edition came already installed on this machine too...

thanks in advance

Last edited by Ecclesiastes; 05-11-2006 at 12:13 PM..
 

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