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 Dec 15 2007, 05:46 PM
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I have just purchased a Toshiba Satellite P200-123 laptop with amongst many other wonderful gadgets a 400GB hard disk drive (apparently made up of 2 x 200GB drives). When I look into "computer" it shows 3 hard drives (Vista (C:) 93.1GB (55.5GB free), Local disk (D:) 186GB (186GB free) and Data (F:) 91.6GB (84.4GB free), the F: drive was empty but I have already copied many of my files to it from my old computer but this is the reason for the query, have I put them in the right space, if not, what do I put where?? The part I do understand (I think!!) is that the C: and D: drive are physically one drive partitioned into two but after that I'm lost. Any mew programs that I've installed haven't been a problem as I just let the computer install them in the "recommended" folders but when I copy file such as my documents or my pictures, have I done the right thing by putting them in the F: drive. (p.s. I hope I have posted this query in the right forum, if not, I apologise in advance!) |
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Dec 15 2007, 08:01 PM
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 Hardware Guru Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,872 Joined: 25-January 07 From: Tiffin, Ohio Member No.: 108,353 |
How are the drives attached to the computer? through an external case? As for what you put where, the only partition to shy away from storing files on is the C: partition since this is where the operating system is held that way if anything should seriously go awry with the operating system you can format that partition without loosing all of your files. If there are 2 physical drives (200 GB each) operating independently of each other then there should be 4 partitions. I only see 3 so either they arent 200GB each or they're operating in a raid format.
-------------------- ~Chad~ Biostar P4M900-M4, Celeron 2.7GHZ OCD 2.95, 2GB patriot DDR2 667 CL3, 60,20 GB IDE HDD,2 Dell 19" Flat Panel monitors, XFX 512mb OC'd Geforce 9500, Windows XP Professional SP2, SAS, MBAM, MCAFEE STINGER, Zonealarm, Linksys Router, and A Modded Palm TX HandHeld. |
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Dec 16 2007, 02:54 AM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 15-December 07 Member No.: 176,722 |
The drives are all contained within the laptop case and it definitely says in the specifications that it has 400GB hard drive and then in brackets they put 2 x 200GB
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Dec 16 2007, 04:25 AM
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Arachibutyrophobia Group: BC Advisor Posts: 5,202 Joined: 4-March 05 From: Northern Sierra Foothills Member No.: 13,532 |
That laptop comes with two 200GB SATA hdds with the operating system on the C drive. From what I was able to find it looks like neither of the drives have more than the one partition so you can store information anywhere you wish.
This post has been edited by dc3: Dec 16 2007, 04:27 AM -------------------- May we please have a little chlorine for the gene pool?
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Dec 16 2007, 09:10 AM
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Hardware Guru Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,872 Joined: 25-January 07 From: Tiffin, Ohio Member No.: 108,353 |
In hindsite I should have looked up the laptop specs. I thought the HDD and the laptop were two seperate items. Good catch DC3
-------------------- ~Chad~ Biostar P4M900-M4, Celeron 2.7GHZ OCD 2.95, 2GB patriot DDR2 667 CL3, 60,20 GB IDE HDD,2 Dell 19" Flat Panel monitors, XFX 512mb OC'd Geforce 9500, Windows XP Professional SP2, SAS, MBAM, MCAFEE STINGER, Zonealarm, Linksys Router, and A Modded Palm TX HandHeld. |
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Dec 16 2007, 09:43 AM
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 Visiting Alien Group: Members Posts: 5,140 Joined: 20-May 07 From: millenium falcon and rockytop Member No.: 131,963 |
the system/boot drive is partitioned into 2 parts, C and F
do the math D is the drive not partitioned into parts -------------------- Chewy
life is like a box of chocolates and stupid is as stupid does but you can always run |
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