How much free hard drive space is available out of the box? How much could I get by unloading preloaded software?
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I had about 70gb free out of the box. Haven't uninstalled the bloatware yet.
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Sure. it just a HDD with some free software from WD. No need to install this software or keep it on a HDD ;)
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My computer running Windows 7 Ultimate reports Capacity 31,005,667,328 bytes 28.8 GB. Hope that helps. Extremely fast by the way.
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You can download most software now or buy an external dr for about 50$. Not putting in the drive cuts down the weight and the price.
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From ezbuycafe via Amazon I received 160 gig formatted NTFS. Cheesey keyboard and mouse, but otherwise a seems to be good system to run my old XP programs and hardware.
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I have not used this software yet....however, I checked and the software disc is "normal size"
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My HDD IS 750GB and shows 698GB is available for use. It keeps 2 GB for partion table and addressing storing data. I don't thing that amount of space is normal to keep reserved for system usage. Try to talk to seller or do low level formating maybe that works for you. I am not sure what is wrong with your HDD.
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Depends on which version of Windows you are running. To utilize 32GBs, I'm using Windows 7 Ultra 64bit. Using Windows 7 Home Premium 32bits, you get something like 3300GBs. I don't know about Professional. I hope this answer helps.
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Hello, This is what I found.... System Memory (RAM) Expandable To Nonexpandable Maximum amount of memory a computer can support (as opposed to the amount that comes preinstalled).
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If you are running the default windows install, it has another partition of about 24GB for recovery and swap and things like that, so that's your 104GB. The rest of the 35GB I assume is all the files that windows needs to work, all the applications and overhead. Don't forget there is a microsd slot, that's another 64GB for $50.
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It is actually 8gb disguised as a 128 GB drive. Windows will report 128gb available but if you test it, it only holds 8gb.
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Thank you for the info, I'll take a look. By the way would you recommend a 1tb 5400rpm or a 750gb 7200rpm? Is the speed trade-off worth the space trade off? thank you
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Only 128 GB is usable. The rest was wasted on OS junk no one needs. Thanks.
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The Windows8_OS drive, or C:\ has 957,248,172,032 bytes or 891 GB and LENOVO, Local Disk or D:\ has 26,843,541,504 bytes or 24.9 giggle bites, so that's 915.9 GB total! And you can make more partitions. ... Is that what you meant?
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The total storage space may not be exactly 64gb, but there are no additional programs on the USB. Besides, a quick format will get rid of anything on there.
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about 6gb of the total capacity is used for the OS and other apps, the rest is free space. source: I own one.
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I put my media on micro sd cards which are pretty crazy cheap now. The unaccounted for space is in system partitions.