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by More2Be on September 19th, 2009
I would have expected 40 GB at least but there may have been lower priced offerings. Local Disk C: usually is the Windows system drive and is a hard drive, though with a small notebook form factor. The disk may have been partitioned into separate drives C: and D:.
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How much does a regular computer have? I know when I bought this one it said that it had 1gb RAM and 120GB Hard drive, is this the same "hard drive" as the local disc C: is referring to? I've never had my computer fill up on memory before and I've had games, music, pictures. I don't have anything but I started with after reformatting yesterday. Basically Mozilla and Limewire, Infra recorder and Ubuntu 9.04 ISO file.
by LeopardGecko - ACS on September 19th, 2009
Yes, usually Local Disk C: is the hard drive, or a partition (subdivided part) of the hard drive.
In XP the path is right-click my computer, manage, click Disk Management. That would show your physical disks; e.g. Disk 0, CD-ROM 0, Disk 1, etc. It would show if Local Disk C is taking up all of a physical disk, just part of it (such as in the case where there is a util/recovery partition), or a very small part of it. Typically laptop/notebook disks run half the capacity of desktop ones. That is, 80 GB to 120 GB was common two years ago so a notebook would likely have had a 40 GB to 80 GB. Usually it is easy to get a disk upgrade for any popular notebook model, along with a $35 utility such as EZGig, that boots from CD and makes an easy 1-2-3 out of copying one disk to another.
by More2Be on September 19th, 2009