Apple :: What's The Formatted HDD Space On A MBP
Apr 20, 2010
a 200 GB computer but only 190 GB is made accessible to you. I know why I don't get all 200 GB I pay for, and this thread wasn't made for anyone to discuss that.
All I want to know is if I get a 500 GB 13" MBP today ... How much HDD space will be made available to me per "My system" or "My Mac" (Whatever is the Apple equivalent of right clicking and hitting properties in Windows).
I want a 500 GB HDD because I want to carry my Time Machine backups with me. By the way, I've never owned a Mac ... I've toyed around with them at Bestbuy and what not, I don't need OSX, but I just cannot find another laptop that has the style and durability of a aluminum chassis of the MBP.
EDIT: On a side note, would it be cheaper to get the 13" stock model and upgrade the HDD myself? Does anyone know what 2.5" HDDs out there are compatible with the MBP? I'm hoping to get a 500GB or 1TB (7200 rpm) version.
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Jul 29, 2009
I use both OSX and windows everyday (Work/Home). I have a 8GB USB to move important files and documents.
Recently I accidentally formatted my USB to NTFS in windows.
Now, when I plug my 8GB USB into OSX, it can read, but I CANNOT alter the contents, or move any files into the USB while in OSX.
Is my USB doomed to be a "Windows Only" USB or can I get OSX to write on it ever again?
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Jan 20, 2009
I installed W7 couple of days ago, all was fine excepted some details:
I use macdrive to access my mac formatted HD, but it doesn't work on W7, I already tried to run as administrator as well as launch it in compatibility for vista.)
If there is no way to use this program with W7, is there another one which is working ?
I don't know why, but W7 does the same as what vista did on boot camp:
I have an external monitor (Samsung T260HD) and when it is plugged, both vista and W7 see it, but they put the external screen as a copy of the screen of the mac and resolution is max 1024x768 for the Samsung and I normally can put 1920x1200 on it
Screen is plugged by DVI
Last but not least, I use blackberry desktop manager to synchronize my blackberry, and W7 doesn't have the "contacts program" (I don't know the real name) by default. is there any way to install it ?
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Jun 17, 2009
there is something I am not able to understand. After I upgraded RAM to 4Gb (from 2Gb) with original Apple RAM. I ran an H/W check (the short and the long one) at next boot and everything was OK (NFF). In spite of this I noted that there were 2Gb less on my HDD and I do not really understand why. Do you have any idea on the reason of this event?
Was it because of the H/W check? Or something odd after RAM upgrade?
why this happened (if you got an idea) and what I could do in order to recover these 2GB (I have plenty of space now but I would prefer to have 2Gb of photos / mp3 instead of stolen space).
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Mar 28, 2010
i have installed windows xp on my macbook intel core2Duo 1.83 GHZ, 80GB, 1GB DDRII, 12"" using bootcamp assistant, i restored it using bootcamp, it took about 8 hours but thr process still didnt go successful,and i turned off my mac book, now windows partition has been removed but it shows used space 35 GB and available 5 GB, where did my remaining space go? and for your info i havnt mac installation disk as iam using my friends macbook.
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Apr 24, 2009
Here is the thing, I only have used 285gb of 500gb on my internal hard drive. I got myself a new 500Gb external hd as a time machine.
However, when I go to the time machine' options it says: Total included: 503.1gb
How can a backup be bigger than my internal hd?
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Jun 10, 2009
I read that Snow Leopard uses about 6GB less disk space than Leopard. I already have Leopard installed so I'm wondering if I upgrade to Snow Leopard do I get about 6GB of space freed up?
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Aug 26, 2007
how to re-formatte the acer aspire 4710G?dowe need to use the external floppy drive?or just boot from the software cd of sp2?
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Aug 21, 2007
i have an acer aspire 5100 and i have formatted the hidden partition pqservise which contains drivers and application of acer.how can i find those file can some upload this files.i don't have any recovery cd.i have searched for napp cd but i haven't find anythink.can someone upload the recovery cd to rapidshare or similar http?
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Jun 21, 2009
I have a VGN-FS38GP and after i formatted i lost sound. i have downloaded several sound drivers and sound does not work.
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Jan 13, 2009
i bought a AT&T wireless usb plug that fits perfectly and works great...Then i bought the highly rated logitech vx nano wireless mouse which comes with a tiny usb plug which could be left in the usb slot...So whats the problem?? both devices cant fit at the same time [/i][/b]on the laptop becuase there is not enough space for the both usb plugs to be occupied. Is there a solution to this?? Are there any adapters that I can use which will allow either one (Preferably the ATT wireless) to be plugged into another slot on the Macpro?
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Nov 7, 2008
I've just got my self a new AS 5930G (with the p7350 processor and 9600M GT DDR2 VRAM and 3GB RAM)
first question:
I wanna know if my entire hard drive will be formatted if i used the backup i burned on 2DVDs or just the system partition will be restored?
second Question:
when i go to Nvidia website to see if there any new drivers for my acer i can't find it anywhere
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Jun 26, 2014
I deleted HP_TOOLs while formatting,and i can't find my cd which has drivers and i tried to install these drivers:
Ralink 802.11 b/g/n WiFi Adapter
Atheros 2011 Wireless LAN Driver
Broadcom Wireless LAN Driver
Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Driver for Microsoft Windows
But I still cant even connect with cable, I tried to install HP Quickweb too but it said HP_Tools is deleted so you cant install this etc....
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Dec 19, 2014
My 3542 laptop has been formatted ..its clean now.The factory restore DVD is not working now .
My friend got the same laptop model .Can i use his factory restore disk to restore mine.
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Nov 13, 2014
I had done a human error after a problem with sound in my inspiron N4010 I tried to do a recovery factory but I didn't a backup of all my important files so that I lost all my information now. That I did. I used Dell data safe local backup application to restore drivers, the hard drive was formatted and re-installed all of the software originally shipping on my computer, Dell Data safe mode basic. not returned me all files. so that I lost important files. How can I recover data? it is possible to recover lost data?
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Oct 22, 2009
My HDD says I have 188 out of 451GB. I can account for most of it and I calculate I should have 100GB more.
My program files(x86) properties is 63.1GB, program files= 9.32GB, Documents = 23.5, music = 9.53. photos and vids are under a gig. Autodesk = 26.4GB. Windows = 23.2GB
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May 12, 2009
This is how much space my files took on C:
And this is what it shows it has:
Now according to my calculation there should be 9.74GB free space on C: but as you can see it's showing only 3.88GB!
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May 25, 2009
I just did a semiclean install and clocked in at just over 16 gb. I've installed a few small programs and now i'm up over 22gb. I've already done all the obvious things such as turning off system restore, turning off hibernation, removing sp1 install files, etc.
The biggest problem is my winsxs folder, which windows explorer puts at 11.1gb. I've read that this number may be a little inflated, but it's right in line with tune up utilities 09. I don't want to delete something useful, but the size of this folder is crazy. I've done some research on the point of this folder, but i never had problems in xp with dlls and i could install xp twice in the size this folder occupies. There is 3gb worth of microsoft-windows-naturallanguage6 files. Microsoft-windows-moviesamples is 150 mb. There is also an into movie for media center that's 50mb. Are there files that I can safely delete or do I just have to bend over and take it?
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May 11, 2010
The space bar on my kb works, but if I hit it on the far right or far left corner it does not register.
if I may be able to bend the button's switch up a little so it's more sensitive.
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Mar 11, 2010
I have a VAIO VGN-AW21Z with a small solid state C Drive which is becoming megga full and in the red So I need to take action and uninstall some of the pre-loaded crap.
Have been down the list and removed all the things I feel confident about but there are some other large files there which I am unsure about and hope some of you can tell me what they do. As I only use my lappie to process photos using Adobe PS, a bit of iTunes, web browsing and emailing........ so I don't need any other specialist type stuff (gaming or producing videos etc).
The following list are what I would like to remove if I knew it is safe to do so.
What do they do?
Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard (759mb)
VAIO BD Menu data (969mb)
VAIO DVD Menu Data Basic (543mb)
VAIO Wallpaper Contents (134mb)
WinDVD BD for VAIO (113mb)
ALSO this machine runs on VISTA and I heard that Windows 7 is a far smaller file. Is it possible to upgrade to 7 and to delete Vista? That might make a huge difference if it is possible?
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Aug 18, 2009
I purchased a VGN-SR430J/B and I cleaned it with killdisk and installed windows 7 32bit.
This model comes with a 320GB HDD, yet when I go to my computer it says that I have 273GB free of 287GB total. So I assume the 14GB (287-273) being used is somehow the 2.5 GB Windows 7 32bit. But 320 - 287 is 33GB, where did it go? Where can I look?
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Jan 4, 2015
I have just purchased the Acer Aspire ES1-512 laptop from Tesco, the laptop will be used for college assignments so will involve a lot of typing. The keys are fine apart from the space bar which is pretty much hit and miss, press the centre of the space bar it works fine, but when pressing the edges or near to the bottom of the space bar and it only works some times and others it doesn't work at all. This means going back and having to put in the missing spaces on documents which is pretty time consuming.
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Feb 21, 2010
Any one know of tools to track down what is consuming space on a hard drive partition?
I am trying to provide remote support for my mother-in-law's Inspiron 8200. Last summer I put in a new HDD and maxed the RAM to get a couple more years out of it. I partitioned the drive into 10GB and 70GB. I installed Win XP home + all service packs and updates, prgrams etc. on C:.
I moved "My Documents" to the second partition, the drive letter ended up as E: for the second partition (optical drive is D. She only has about 3 GB of data so there should not be any issues.
She recently called saying that attempting to install TurboTax resulted in an insufficient disk space error. When I had her look into it, C: is almost full, 9.5GB used. This seems unreasonable to me. I have a couple of other laptops configured similarly and the OS and programs only take about 6.5GB. This lady is not one to install lots of stuff.
My daughter is there visiting so I had her read me the space taken by each folder in the C: partition. Adding up the numbers it seems that there is at least a couple of gig unaccounted for. Do I have to actually go into every folder to find any space hogs? Nothing I heard so far seems unreasonably large.
I am suspecting some kind of bug or spyware is creating a file that is consuming the space on C:. I had a problem with Zone Alarm 9 creating a ridiculous log file on one of my boxes but she is not running ZA.
E: has plenty of space only the 3GB of data in My Docs.
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Oct 29, 2009
I am puzzled to see that part of my 320 gb 7200 drive is not recognized. A right click on C drive states that I have 282 GB left out of 297GB. I do not want to move forward with my install before accounting for this space. So...anyone have any advice?
As I have a Dell Studio XPS 1640 it has a a few of Dell specific driver I must install or I wil not have certain features. I am not thinking dock here. Bios ,chipset, IDT Sc. Windows grabbed the latest driver for the Radeon 3670 but not the Catalyst SW. Nor would I want it to. Has anyone dl'd the latest Catalyst suite? Any fellow xps owners out there test driven Dell's drivers on Win 7 pro yet?
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Jan 11, 2009
Is it just me or is the keyboard on the xpsm1330 loud?
my space key seems very loud. defective? or just designed that way?
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Oct 21, 2009
I have a Dell Mini 9, and it is steadily and repeatedly losing what little disk space I have. I ran AVG and panda security and got nothing.
I've done disk cleanup and cleared the history, cache, cookies, and restore points. It's STILL losing space. It'll go up when I restart but then immediately start dropping.
There are no games or music or movies on this thing. I even took all my text files out. The only programs that were added after I got it were office, firefox, and avg.
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May 12, 2009
This is how much space my files took on C:
And this is what it shows it has:
Now according to my calculation there should be 9.74GB free space on C: but as you can see it's showing only 3.88GB!
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Apr 14, 2010
I just realized that the sony recovery partition uses up 8gb of space and was wondering if there is a way to delete and merge this partition to the primary partition?
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Apr 9, 2009
In the bottom right corner, a message keeps popping up saying " Low disk space on hard drive D" and the hp total care advisor says I have 5% free space on drive C.
My laptop is only 2 years old. I tried running disk defragmenter, disk cleanup, and I uninstalled a bunch of programs I dont use anymore. None of them helped with this error.
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Nov 12, 2009
my laptop (HP presario CQ61) disk space(c:) is going down automatically. what should i do? please reply.
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