Hard Drive Problem

[Jeffe]

Hello Everyone,
I have a problem with my hard drive and would be grateful if anyone could help me out with some info. I bought a Sony FS115B model 60GB one. but the computer just shows a total of 48 GB. When I contact Dixons where I bought it they give some weird reason of shared graphics or something of that sort. Could anyone help me out on this issue!
Cheers,
Jefferson

[itbroker]

Easy. Normally a small part from the hard disk (+- 10Gb) is used to store the Sony system. This is absolutely normal.

[Foxhound]

It might have to do with the fact that your recovery DVD/CD's are on "hidden" partion. I would call SONY and ask them. The dixon's story is Bull*. Shared Memory only takes space from your RAM and not your HDD space. sheesh, makes me mad these kind of sales men.:smileydevil:

[cmsd]

Hello!

Have your HDD drive C and D or just C only? Usually Vaio comes with two partitions on 60GB HDD. Have a look to under Windows Explorer may be that solves your problem.

Cheers

[seb21__]

If you bought a 60GB HDD, then you would never have 60GB free on this HDD. This is a manufacturer fake.

Approx 55-57GB are possible on a "60GB" HDD.

I don't have any hidden partition on the HDD in my laptop. And I can only use approx 55,9 GB. Which is normal.

There are 116280 cylinders, 16 heads and 63 sectors per track the HDD on my laptop. That makes 117210240 sectors.

117210240 sectors X 512Bytes = 60011642880 Bytes = 55,89019775390625GB (LOL, "60GB")
That is the size of the formatted HDD!


HTH

[Eugenepang]

There are 116280 cylinders, 16 heads and 63 sectors per track the HDD on my laptop. That makes 117210240 sectors.

117210240 sectors X 512Bytes = 60011642880 Bytes = 55,89019775390625GB (LOL, "60GB")
That is the size of the formatted HDD!


HTH

... all the figure...:smileylaugh:

[seb21__]