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oneiros
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 Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 6:57 am Post subject: My hard drive is missing 200 gigabytes? |
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This may be a really stupid question, so bear with me. I have a brand new HP Pavilion Slimline 7067. The installed hard drive is meant to be 250 gigabytes. However, I've just noticed that when I go to "My Computer" and click on the C drive in Windows, it's listed as being only 50 gigabytes.
I checked the set-up screen, and it lists my drive as being 250gigabytes. So, any ideas on what's going on here? Where exactly is the rest of my hard drive space, and how do I get to it? |
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Demophobe
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 7:05 am Post subject: |
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| No partitions? |
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blackjack
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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| do you have a 200 gb F drive? |
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oneiros
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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Nope, no 200 gb F: drive. That's the first thing I looked for. 
As far as partitions go, I'm not sure. The store I bought it from did all the set up work on it, which has turned out to be a massive headache. I really don't know that much about partitions, though. Would it be possible for somebody to make a mistake on the partitions to the point where I couldn't access the rest of my hard drive? |
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rokgryphon
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Go into disk management..could be that the partition was made but not formatted right so doesn't show up. If you see the partition in disk managment doa quick format on it since it is a new drive and it should be good to go. Hope that helps. |
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oneiros
Joined: 19 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| rokgryphon wrote: |
| Go into disk management..could be that the partition was made but not formatted right so doesn't show up. If you see the partition in disk managment doa quick format on it since it is a new drive and it should be good to go. Hope that helps. |
Cool! That was it. They just didn't bother partitioning the rest of the drive. So, I just partitioned it and it's formatting now. Which was a little scary because my computer is in Korean, so I had to guess a lot at which button to push.
Thanks! You guys rock! |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Why don't you change it over to an English system? |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| spliff wrote: |
| Why don't you change it over to an English system? |
you mean install an english version right? because you can't change it over |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 12:56 am Post subject: |
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HP is one of the few companies in Korea that WILL actually give you an English version of whatever OS you have installed on your system. Take it back and tell them that you want everything reinstalled in English and make sure that they give you the original disks to go along with it.
It's bollocks that they didn't give you this service automatically. |
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oneiros
Joined: 19 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 3:59 am Post subject: |
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| jazblanc77 wrote: |
HP is one of the few companies in Korea that WILL actually give you an English version of whatever OS you have installed on your system. Take it back and tell them that you want everything reinstalled in English and make sure that they give you the original disks to go along with it.
It's bollocks that they didn't give you this service automatically. |
I didn't actually buy it directly from HP. I bought it from another dealer because I got a really good deal on it. Apparently, it was to offset the fact that their computer techs are morons.
I haven't switched to an English system because, honestly, it doesn't bother me that much. Windows is mostly designed so that you just have to click on the pretty picture anyway, and a lot of the "technical" terms are the same in Korean and English anyway (ie partition, format, hard drive.) |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 6:58 am Post subject: |
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| oneiros wrote: |
| jazblanc77 wrote: |
HP is one of the few companies in Korea that WILL actually give you an English version of whatever OS you have installed on your system. Take it back and tell them that you want everything reinstalled in English and make sure that they give you the original disks to go along with it.
It's bollocks that they didn't give you this service automatically. |
I didn't actually buy it directly from HP. I bought it from another dealer because I got a really good deal on it. Apparently, it was to offset the fact that their computer techs are morons.
I haven't switched to an English system because, honestly, it doesn't bother me that much. Windows is mostly designed so that you just have to click on the pretty picture anyway, and a lot of the "technical" terms are the same in Korean and English anyway (ie partition, format, hard drive.) |
Unless something goes wrong. Then you need English Windows to wade through the fixes. |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 9:33 am Post subject: |
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| oneiros wrote: |
| jazblanc77 wrote: |
HP is one of the few companies in Korea that WILL actually give you an English version of whatever OS you have installed on your system. Take it back and tell them that you want everything reinstalled in English and make sure that they give you the original disks to go along with it.
It's bollocks that they didn't give you this service automatically. |
I didn't actually buy it directly from HP. I bought it from another dealer because I got a really good deal on it. Apparently, it was to offset the fact that their computer techs are morons.
I haven't switched to an English system because, honestly, it doesn't bother me that much. Windows is mostly designed so that you just have to click on the pretty picture anyway, and a lot of the "technical" terms are the same in Korean and English anyway (ie partition, format, hard drive.) |
Any dealer could have requested the English OS to be shipped with the system. It doesn't matter if they were working in an HP store or not. |
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