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re: Does the dvd drive or floppy drive use any of the hard-drive?
Saturday, November 8, 2003 at 4:52 pm
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Posted by Lee S (482 messages posted)

Is the total capacity of your drive 10gb? or is that the free space left? Win XP 
uses around 1.5gb. Your DVD sofware could easily use another 0.5 gb.  

Reinstalling Windows will not reclaim any drive space. 






On Saturday, November 8, 2003 at 3:58 pm, Soon wrote:
>HI, I got a laptop from a relative, and it has a hard drive
>about 10gb.  However there are no programs, only a dvd software.  My question is 
>does the floppy drive or dvd drive use any of the hard drive cause it says i already 
>used 2gb, leaving me with 8......
>or by installing windows do some files use up the hard drive( ~2gb in my case)....if 
>i re-install windows xp, will i have the full 10gb.........
>hope someone answers this
>thx

Written in response to:: Does the dvd drive or floppy drive use any of the hard-drive? (Soon: Saturday, November 8, 2003 at 3:58 pm)

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re: Does the dvd drive or floppy drive use any of the hard-drive? (Help Me: Saturday, November 8, 2003 at 9:54 pm)

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Does the dvd drive or floppy drive use any of the hard-drive? (Soon: Sat, Nov 8, 2003, 3:58 pm)

re: Does the dvd drive or floppy drive use any of the hard-drive? (triplate: Sat, Nov 8, 2003, 4:23 pm)

re: Does the dvd drive or floppy drive use any of the hard-drive? (Soon: Sat, Nov 8, 2003, 4:47 pm)

re: Does the dvd drive or floppy drive use any of the hard-drive? (triplate: Sat, Nov 8, 2003, 4:56 pm)

re: Does the dvd drive or floppy drive use any of the hard-drive? (Lee S: Sat, Nov 8, 2003, 4:52 pm)

re: Does the dvd drive or floppy drive use any of the hard-drive? (Help Me: Sat, Nov 8, 2003, 9:54 pm)

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