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HP Recovery Drive in dv8000t
I bought from Costco.com a dv8000t with 80GB Hard Drive, but the notebook come with 61,5GB (Drive C) and 11,9GB (Drive D - recovery drive).
Anyone real use this recovery drive? I want to erase this drive, because 11.9GB is so much space...I don't now, maybe I make a backup in cd.....Anyone have sugestion???
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the revocery drive is important incase your something happens to your system, you can restore it to how it was when it first came (BRAND NEW). so i would recommend that you NOT delete the recovery partion( unless you want to do a clean install and have an operating system on a seperate disk)
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Wow, almost 12 gigs used for recovery...that's crazy. So C and D take up 73.4 gigs (61.5 + 11.9 = 73.4), but where's the rest?
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There's also some space left for the Quickplay partition, but I'm not sure how much that is.
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Wow, almost 12 gigs used for recovery...that's crazy. So C and D take up 73.4 gigs (61.5 + 11.9 = 73.4), but where's the rest?
80 gig drive is not going to give you 80 once it's formated
It's sort of like a 21 inch crt... they measure the GLASS behind the plastic bezel /trim to be 21 inches...
The amount you "see" the viewable being like 19.2 for something advertised to "be" 21 inches.
I think they should be forced to rate things at what the customer can "see"... If that 80 formats to 75 gig, it's a 75 gig, not a 80 gig.
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the problem is is they cannot account for the various partitioning and file system formats out there, they base the mesurement on raw disk space, once it is partitioned and formated it will yeild different capacities based on the number of partitions, the type of partitioning and the format of the file system... the only common denominator is the raw byte count on the drive
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Wow, almost 12 gigs used for recovery...that's crazy. So C and D take up 73.4 gigs (61.5 + 11.9 = 73.4), but where's the rest?
I want to know to, where is the rest? heheh, I don't know...
and i Think 12 gigs is really crazy..just need the cd for Windows Media Center, the other things I thnik you can take from updates in hp.com and windows updates....I'm not sure.......but 12 gigs is crazy..
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I bought from Costco.com a dv8000t with 80GB Hard Drive, but the notebook come with 61,5GB (Drive C) and 11,9GB (Drive D - recovery drive).
Anyone real use this recovery drive? I want to erase this drive, because 11.9GB is so much space...I don't now, maybe I make a backup in cd.....Anyone have sugestion???
Thanks
You have the option of burning the partition onto 12 CDs/4 DVDs, after which you may delete the partition.
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Is there a work-around to burn more than (1) copy of the recovery discs?
Say you burn a set.. and (1) of the set is corrupt. gets damaged, or gets lost....
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the ideia for burn I think is the best option, maybe I burn 2 times, just for security.....And your HP notebook, no have this "feature" ? hehehehhe
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