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dell inspiron 530 hard drive capacity
bluedove
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I just bought dell pc with supposed hard drive capacity of 320 GB but when it arrived i discovered that the C drive is 288GB and D drive is 10GB, "total 298 GB", while ordering i upgraded the HD from 250 to 320 and paid extra for it.
i'm not quite happy about this as i need the hard drive for storing large files,
Should i do ring them and demand a refund or ask for a change of HD.
any ideas pls.
i'm not quite happy about this as i need the hard drive for storing large files,
Should i do ring them and demand a refund or ask for a change of HD.
any ideas pls.
Though the vision may not be the true future of man but it can't be completely beyond his control.
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This might explain it.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2003/09/60505I'm Glad to be here... At my age I'm glad to be anywhere!!
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Manufacturers quote there hdd's where a gb is 1,000,000,000 bytes wheras windows sees a gigabyte as 1,073,741,824 bytes therefore appears there is "less" space.0
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Not sure why you have a d drive though, is this displayed in my computer of windows?0
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Not sure why you have a d drive though, is this displayed in my computer of windows?
The d: drive is a "logical" drive and will contain the factory restore of Vista plus a load of other Dell diagnostics.You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take - Wayne Gretzky
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thought as much similiar to my old Dell laptop, just wondered if it displayed in windows cause it didnt on my Dell0
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doesnt windows,especially vista take up a lot of room?Live in my shoes for a week,then tell me your lifes hard!0
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Yes I am not a fan of Vista, prefer Xp, does everything I need0
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Not really relevant
True, there are 750gb hard drives doing the rounds for less than £80 delivered.
Who's gonna care about a 10gb op sys install?You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take - Wayne Gretzky
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Dont forget that format and partition both take some of the capacity anyway .
from two 250 gb drives i lose 34 GB in partition and Format from the supposed 500GB capacity .
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