Acer 9300 series

I have an acer 9300series laptop which I thought was 16 gig HDD why is there
2 70 GIG HDD in there one is marked DATA?

"PWB" <pwbutt@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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>I have an acer 9300series laptop which I thought was 16 gig HDD why is
>there 2 70 GIG HDD in there one is marked DATA?
>

Your Hard Drive is partitioned as a C and D drive, The D drive contains the
data files to back up your operating system . You can use the balance of
the D drive for your own storage. Good Idea to make a backup disk of this
data in case of hard drive failure.

"Bob Fay" <rgfay@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> "PWB" <pwbutt@googlemail.com> wrote in message
> news:wBXyj.26408$ay3.16888@newsfe5-win.ntli.net...
>>I have an acer 9300series laptop which I thought was 16 gig HDD why is
>>there 2 70 GIG HDD in there one is marked DATA?
>>
>
> Your Hard Drive is partitioned as a C and D drive, The D drive contains
> the data files to back up your operating system . You can use the balance
> of the D drive for your own storage. Good Idea to make a backup disk of
> this data in case of hard drive failure.
so in actual fact theres only 70 gig?

"PWB" <pwbutt@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> "Bob Fay" <rgfay@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>> "PWB" <pwbutt@googlemail.com> wrote in message
>> news:wBXyj.26408$ay3.16888@newsfe5-win.ntli.net...
>>>I have an acer 9300series laptop which I thought was 16 gig HDD why is
>>>there 2 70 GIG HDD in there one is marked DATA?
>>>
>>
>> Your Hard Drive is partitioned as a C and D drive, The D drive contains
>> the data files to back up your operating system . You can use the
>> balance of the D drive for your own storage. Good Idea to make a backup
>> disk of this data in case of hard drive failure.
> so in actual fact theres only 70 gig?
>

This is how it looks with my 60 gig drive.

Item Value
Drive C:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 25.25 GB (27,113,701,376 bytes)
Free Space 13.00 GB (13,962,051,584 bytes)
Volume Name ACER
Volume Serial Number 0E4D13C3

Drive D:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 25.73 GB (27,631,648,768 bytes)
Free Space 18.03 GB (19,364,593,664 bytes)
Volume Name ACERDATA
Volume Serial Number 12EA1119

You should have a similar breakdown of your two partitions, but with a
larger drive. 160 gig = 2 times 70 gig space for storage.

Bob