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

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Everything you put on your HDD uses space...what,d you think it did?


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

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SOrry for being computer illiterate, because i thought programs use up your HDD not the actual drives.....


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

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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

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Hey...everybody started out ignorant of puters...it takes time.The actual drives are called hardware....hardware, needs software to run (for the most part)...having a cd drive and floppy drive in of itself has no effect on the hdd...but,you need drivrs(software) to operate the the cd and floppy drive...these (software) drivers are written to the Hdd...(virtual drives are another ballgame but same idea)....;)


On Saturday, November 8, 2003 at 4:47 pm, Soon wrote:
>SOrry for being computer illiterate, because i thought programs use up your HDD not
>the actual drives.....
>
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Yah total cap is 10gb......Wow didn't know windows xp uses up that much of your hdd before you even put anything in it........but does that make sense, even if i just only had the dvd software nothing else, it uses up 2 gb......thx everyone fo their input....... the illiterate one :)


On Saturday, November 8, 2003 at 4:52 pm, Lee S wrote:

>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. 
>
>

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