Most PC's that you buy from a retailer now have 2 partitions. One is the system partition, and the other is a restore partition. This eliminates the need to dig out a bunch of cd's to restore your system to its factory default settings. I think this may be what your experiencing with this system.
Subject: Re: [4EmulatorsandRoms] Re: Just Wondering
Well, you are probably never going to see the full gig-age on an HD due to formatting. The formatting itself takes up some space... and depending on the type of formatting (generally FAT or NTFS) it works in chunks. If only a protion of a chunk is used... the rest is left empty, wasted. This is why defragging is so important even on a mostly empty drive if you do a lot or read-write to it.
And as I see someone else mentioned, it is quite common to put your OS on a small partition and leave the other as a storage drive of sorts. I don't usually see them split down the middle that way, but then again... this is a WalMart special and I'm sorry, but I'm no fan of WallyWorld ('course they likely had nothing to do with it, it's more likely an Acer decision but a silly one from my point of view).
It was likely done to allow maximum "idiot-proof" room for the default OS folders. You know the "My Pictures", "My Music" stuff... so someone doesn't have to learn to look somewhere else on their computer... it's all nicely tucked (automatically!) into cute little folders labelled for what they are and already affiliated to the programs that use them.
But yea, having a partition can be a very good thing if used for that usefulness. Store the OS on a smaller partition, in case you need to reinstall it... it won't affect the rest of your "stuff".
Raven
(p.s. I thought Acer was a discount brand of one of the larger companies... like an eMachines kinda brand)
--- On Sun, 11/30/08, Wclaring3 <wclaring3@...> wrote:
From: Wclaring3 <wclaring3@...> Subject: Re: [4EmulatorsandRoms] Re: Just Wondering To: 4EmulatorsandRoms@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 2:48 PM
Okay I guess this can be directed towards you or anyone else that can answer. It came partitioned by one partition haveing 144gb space & the other 143gb it's saposed to have a 320gb hard drive. What happened to the other 33gb & is a partitioned computer good or bad? I'm not really knolegadble in this subject so any help is good.
--- In 4EmulatorsandRoms@ yahoogroups. com, Wclaring3 <wclaring3@.. .> wrote: > > Has anyone ever heard of a computer company called *acer* before? > Wclaring >
Yes, Acer has been around for quite some time. They bought out Texas Instrument's laptop line some years back, and they already had their own line of laptops prior to that. My first color laptop was an AcerNote Light 361 (Pentium 120).
I'm typing this right now on an Acer, the Aspire 3680 - pretty good machine for a low-end priced unit. Think I paid $350 for it, about 3 years ago - still going strong.
Anything in particular you need to know about them?
Richard
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