I also have D drive with about 12GB on it, could have something to do with it?
2007-02-21 13:57:48 · 18 answers · asked by poysenprincess18 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
A hard drive can have one or more partitions. So yours is divided into two partitions for some reason. Nothing is wrong!
2007-02-21 14:02:14 · answer #1 · answered by Raymond 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) the physical hard "disk" is one unit
2) it can be "partitioned" into several sections
3) each section is given a "drive" letter that you see as "c" or "d" etc.
4) your thought on both "C" and "D" being partitions or drives on that one 80gig disk is probably correct.
5) even then they dont add up to 80 , but the reason is that all hard disks have an "overhead" or unusable space it reserves for operation. I have a 160 gig and the computer only sees 149g of it not much unlike you describe. This is normal
2007-02-21 22:08:09 · answer #2 · answered by MIKE M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most laptops these days have what is called a "recovery partition". Basically, to avoid giving you a full windows disk or something like that, the manufacturers copy a "restore cd" to the hard drive. they typically give it a different drive letter and hide it to make you not mess with it. if you know what you are doing, you can delete that partition and reclaim the space. it's not for novices though. to see if that is the case, go to START>RUN and type: diskmgmt.msc that program will tell you how your drive is "partitioned". a good tool to resize, delete etc. partitions is "partition magic"
2007-02-21 22:07:05 · answer #3 · answered by BigJohnny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The C & D drives are one physical hard rive, divided into two "logical" drives. Just like taking a room and building a wall inside of it. As for the rest? - the computer does it's housework in that space. Think of it as a broom closet in the same room.
2007-02-21 22:05:04 · answer #4 · answered by bullwinkle 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your "D" drive is actually a partition of your hard drive. Combine the C and D drives for 72 gigabytes. The rest is gone to operating system, installed programs, etc. Perfectly normal.
2007-02-21 22:01:34 · answer #5 · answered by ruralcomputersolutions 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
A lot of computer manufacturers lie.
It was a 80 Gigabyte drive (based on Million bytes).
Also there is some space lost while partitioning it.
2007-02-21 22:04:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your hard drive is partitioned into 2 virtual drives don't worry its like that most likely for backing-up your data.
2007-02-21 22:01:24 · answer #7 · answered by Corpse Grinder 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well you might have 20gb of memory already used up with windows and whatever other program that came pre-installed in your system and the drive D is probably your system back up data so that when it crashes it will have you orignal computer data already stored
2007-02-21 22:46:12 · answer #8 · answered by thatguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drive "D" is for for restoring your operating system. The other 8 gigs is a buffer.
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2007-02-21 22:04:46 · answer #9 · answered by The Money Alchemist 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's just set in the hard drive I think. Turn off your PC and see if there's a jumper that is set to use the hard drive only to 60MB.
2007-02-21 22:12:37 · answer #10 · answered by Teddie 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋