HD 40GB

[gfaelli]

hello guys,
I've bought a vaio pcg-k415b with a 40GB HD. But it came partitioned in 2. One of then was 15GB and another 17GB = 32GB.
I did put it into just one. But still 30GB of space.
What can I do to get those 40GB?

Thanks

[itbroker]

The 10 Gb was used to the Sony System and Recovery Disk softwares. Have you the disk recovery ?. After create the disks, may be you can delete something, but normally, you will dont get that. You will stay with 30Gb.

[gfaelli]

Hi mate,
Yes, I did the disk recovery and I stay with 30GB.
But it's not really fear, is it?! You buy it as a 40GB and all you get is 30GB...

[itbroker]

For all of us...

Good options of external HD exist and with a great price in the link below. It is a case to consider...

http://www.lacie.com/uk/

[gfaelli]

ok itbroker... thanks for your help!

[rich912]

As Itbroker said, the remaining space it taken by a hidden partition containing the recovery information. Once you have made at least two or more copies of the recovery disks carry out a restore and using the advanced option choose to delete the recovery partition.

[kee-lo_]

itbroker is right, an external drive is an essential and can save you from loosing important data.

[cmsd]

Actually depending on work you're doing with your notebook ...

If you use your Vaio as a real desktop replacement - 60-80gb should be minimum today. May be an upgrade (changing HHD) to such a level would help or even as said previously of posters here, an external HDD (80 to 250gb, i.e. Maxtor, Iomega, etc.) would be a solution.

Otherwise if you use your notebook just for working at home, docking, storage somewhere else (office, work) it's not necessary to increase really.

However you should find your own way to suit your needs personally. My notebook has 80gb and I use external Iomega linked via USB. Works fine at all.

Honestly, I won't recommend in deleting any of the Recovery files in any case.

[gfaelli]

As Itbroker said, the remaining space it taken by a hidden partition containing the recovery information. Once you have made at least two or more copies of the recovery disks carry out a restore and using the advanced option choose to delete the recovery partition.

Ohh.. that's great! Nice one!!
Thanks a lot...

[rich912]

No problem, but I cannot stress enough the need to make sure that you have more than one working copy of the recovery disks before deleting the hidden partition. The only way back otherwise is to fork out 70 Euro to Sony for a new copy.