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post #1 of 27
2/6/10 at 12:33pm
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so my Local Disk (C: ) is almost full, with a 19.2 GB left out of 136 gb. i run windows vista 32-bit. i have a inspiron e1705. i dont not have many big programs. some of them include Age of Empires III and an expansion pack, itunes, garmin software for my gps, java, office (excel, powerpoint and word), firefox and ie, wd anywhere backup, avast! anti-virus, mp3 rocket, apple qucktime, spy-bot, etc.. i am pretty sure that these are all up-to-date. i have sp 2 installed... (is there a third one?). i also have many pictures and videos (17.3 gb for pictures, 47.4 gb for music, and 8.6gb for videos). i do not have too many documents. i have also just recently formatted my computer. any ideas as to why it is so full, and how i can create more room? do i just have to delete some things?

thanks!
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post #2 of 27
2/6/10 at 12:54pm
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and i don't understand why i have only 136 gb, when it is suppose to be 250 gb (and i do have a 10gb recovery drive... is there anyway i can delete this to add to my C drive storage???)
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post #3 of 27
2/6/10 at 1:19pm
Why don't you check you temporary folders - I recently deleted about 20GB out of mine.

Other then that - to answer you own question - how about checking in which folder... and then subfolder... all the GBs are? Wouldn't that give a good answer to your question?

And last but not least - If you use Win 7 - it does take quite a lot of space.
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post #4 of 27
2/6/10 at 1:36pm
If you have a 259 GB drive you should be able to see it all.

Do you have the lasetst BIOS update ?

What does the BIOS indicate for the drive size ? and Model #
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post #5 of 27
2/6/10 at 1:46pm
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i thought windows was suppose to be faster, lighter, and more stable?
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post #6 of 27
2/6/10 at 1:57pm
and takes up more disk space

But do you have a 250 gb or not
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post #7 of 27
2/6/10 at 2:51pm
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Originally Posted by sniper8752 View Post
i thought windows was suppose to be faster, lighter, and more stable?
Which one (version)?

cheers ...
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post #8 of 27
2/6/10 at 4:56pm
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for my bios, its A8, and i am looking at A10... but my computer seems to be running fine without it.
i am 90% sure it is 250 gb... not sure how to find it, but i looked it up... "Up to 250GB 5400RPM SATA hard drive lets you store and access abundant data on your notebook." http://www.dell.com/content/products...=22&l=en&s=dfh
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post #9 of 27
2/6/10 at 6:55pm
The model number of the hard drive would tell you
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post #10 of 27
2/6/10 at 11:54pm
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its samsung hm160ji ata... why do you need that?
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post #11 of 27
2/7/10 at 12:41am
because it tells you the drive capacity (160 GB in your case)

once you format it (149 GB) and figure your computer company used around 13 GB for an OS recovery partition, 136GB is what you've got left. Your music, pictures, and videos take up around half that space, and Windows and your programs take up most of the rest. My advice: either buy a bigger capacity hard drive or store your music, pictures, and videos on an external.
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post #12 of 27
2/7/10 at 5:09am
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"Up to 250GB 5400RPM SATA hard drive
Key words.

"up to"

Doesn't mean you have the 250Gb model, which you do not.

Please note that you can buy a bigger hard drive bigger than 250Gb if you wish. I believe the largest they have right now is 500Gb hard drives.
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post #13 of 27
2/7/10 at 10:27am
They recently released 640GB. WD 640GB is $89.99 at the Egg.
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post #14 of 27
2/7/10 at 10:47am
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well i have a laptop, and that would not be easy to upgrade the drive...
also, i am afraid that if i put all of my files that take up most of the room, then it goes corrupt, then i will loose them all... i see the hard drive as more secure and stable... i know that external drives do not last forever (or at least not as long as drives inside of a computer do...)
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post #15 of 27
2/7/10 at 2:08pm
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Originally Posted by sniper8752 View Post
well i have a laptop, and that would not be easy to upgrade the drive...
also, i am afraid that if i put all of my files that take up most of the room, then it goes corrupt, then i will loose them all... i see the hard drive as more secure and stable... i know that external drives do not last forever (or at least not as long as drives inside of a computer do...)
hard drive is easy to upgrade, just two screws on the bottom and slide it out, then slide in a new one

the only reason external drives last any less than inside a computer is because externals get knocked around more as you pick them up, move them around, stick them in bags, etc. they are identical hardware
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post #16 of 27
2/7/10 at 2:44pm


changing the hard drive on the E1705 is very easy to do.

Get a external hard drive enclouse as well and put you old drive in it to uas for back up
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post #17 of 27
2/10/10 at 11:16pm
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so you would trust all of your photos/videos on one external drive if you were careful with it?

and also, im looking at newegg.com for 500gb internal drives, and had a question: is there a limit to how many gigs i can have inside of my laptop? does there have to be so much memory/500gb or something like that? i am looking at 1tb... just curious (i know that's a lot, but memory is cheap, right?)
and what is a good company to buy from for these drives? seagate, wd, etc.?
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post #18 of 27
2/10/10 at 11:26pm
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Originally Posted by sniper8752 View Post
so you would trust all of your photos/videos on one external drive if you were careful with it?

and also, im looking at newegg.com for 500gb internal drives, and had a question: is there a limit to how many gigs i can have inside of my laptop? does there have to be so much memory/500gb or something like that? i am looking at 1tb... just curious (i know that's a lot, but memory is cheap, right?)
As I recall, the current limit is around 2 terabytes before addressing becomes difficult on 32-bit systems. So you've got no worries on that front. What you should be careful about is that the largest capacity notebook hard drives are slightly thicker (by 3 millimeters) than all the other notebook hard drives because they use 3 platters instead of 2. This can cause problems getting the hard drives to fit in machines that are not designed to accommodate the thicker ones.

For this reason, I would suggest you limit yourself to 640GB, the largest capacity notebook hard drive available in standard form factor (9.5mm thick), or lower.

as to company, both Seagate and Western Digital are good. WD is the only one that currently makes 640GB hard drives in 9.5mm form factor, though, so if you want the absolute largest capacity, go with WD.

edit: just looked and Samsung makes a 640GB drive too, but I'd still recommend WD.
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post #19 of 27
2/11/10 at 1:07am
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ok, thanks!
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post #20 of 27
2/15/10 at 10:16am
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so i'm looking at this one which is on sale at the moment: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136490
how do i find out how thick it is? and what must i make sure that it will run on my computer, as well as fit in it? do i want to look at the RPM and Cache (i don't know what cache is..)?
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