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post #1 of 5
7/3/06 at 10:27pm
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Hi, I ordered my laptop with 80 gb, but it says that there are only 68.4 gb available on my drive. Am I getting cheated from this? I think I read about a similar problem before; should I call Dell and get a replacement or something like that?
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post #2 of 5
7/3/06 at 10:46pm
with their recovery partition, and media-direct functionality, youre note getting cheaped out of anything
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post #3 of 5
7/3/06 at 11:06pm
yeah, 80,000,000,000 bytes is really more like 74.5GB or something (them hdd manufacturers do that with the base 2 system), then about 5GB or something is a hidden partition made by dell to put the system restore stuff. then there's like a 50MB partition, which really doesnt take up much space.
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post #4 of 5
7/3/06 at 11:09pm
Just format it and delete those extra partions. That will get rid of the bloat ware. Be careful if you want to keep Media Direct. I don't need it. I deleted that partition.
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post #5 of 5
7/4/06 at 1:16am
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oh ok.. arghh I really don't want to reformat everything but I know I should. Thanks everyone, I guess I'll just suck it up and reformat tonight

hey it's July 4th; I've gotta do something special lol

btw Larry, I've got an E1705 almost exactly like yours, and yes it is very, very nice.
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