New Laptop issues.

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Originally Posted by Johno

My C drive is 439GB, Recovery is 25GB. That's 464GB accounted for, the drive is 500GB. It is normal.



Do you even know what disk defragmentation does?

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Yes, it gets rid of all the stuff that is in the laptop that is not needed, for example files that have been deleted but yet some parts still remain, or thats what I was told at college m8 :)

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Originally Posted by james,

Yes, it gets rid of all the stuff that is in the laptop that is not needed, for example files that have been deleted but yet some parts still remain, or thats what I was told at college m8 :)

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Do you know anything? Just a general question, I'm now fed up of seeing you in threads offering useless information.

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Originally Posted by james,

I work with computers for a living and I have never heard of anything like this. It may look like there is a hardware problem, I would return it to the store and ask what they think whats wrong with it, but it looks to me like a error that cant be fixed

Sorry if its not much help m8 and what the person said above, recovery may take some but not all that lot? S:

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If this is your job and you don't think this is normal then you' got some learnin' to.

"I work with computer networks for a living"... and I say It's perfectly normal, you'll have 100mb on a system partition for Windows 7, you'll have a recovery partition of about 20GB to reinstall Windows 7 and then you'll have drive formatting.

EDIT: @James, if you think defragmenting removes files, I'm worried. LOL

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Originally Posted by james,

Yes, it gets rid of all the stuff that is in the laptop that is not needed, for example files that have been deleted but yet some parts still remain, or thats what I was told at college m8 :)

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Originally Posted by Recursion

EDIT: @James, if you think defragmenting removes files, I'm worried. LOL

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Okay, well you've been taught ********! I agree Tom, I too am worried.

Defragmentation is the process of moving non-contiguous clusters into contiguous blocks, it has nothing to do with the removal of files.

This is normal for any hard drive because of how the manufacturer create the drives and how the operating system read the bytes on the disk since 1GB != 1000MB as 1GB = 1024MB. So i think the manufacturer create the disks to have 320000MB instead of 327680MB and 320000MB would be 312.5GB.

This is what I've read somewhere a while back. Might not be true since it was a long time ago I read it.

damn idk son did u get ur lab top from the hood ? if yu did thts probly whyy -____-

keep yur *REMOVED* out the hood lil boy !!

Edited by Recursion (Forum Moderator): Don't pointlessly post or avoid the filter please.

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Originally Posted by swag

damn idk son did u get ur lab top from the hood ? if yu did thts probly whyy -____-

keep yur $$ out the hood lil boy !!

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Eh, What?

operating systems/partitions/system restore data/backups could be any one or a combination of those

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Originally Posted by swag
damn idk son did u get ur lab top from the hood ? if yu did thts probly whyy -____-

keep yur $$ out the hood lil boy !!

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wag1 dis guy get his lamb chop frm tha shop bran flake new e iz no wak atak

Edited by -Danube- (Assistant General Manager) : Please do not post pointlessly, thanks

Don't worry, that is normal.

When I was adding windows 7 to my computer the first time I installed it, it didn't install properly and said that I had used up all my space in my hardrive, I re-installed it and it worked fine after that. So this is normal, as long as the amount of space is close to what It's supposed to be.