Useable Space COMPLETED WITH THANKS

[Richview]

Can anyone help please. I bought a reconditioned laptop (it's going back!) The usable space seems awfully low - the seller said it's not. W7 Professional 64bit - hardly any programmes installed. Compared to my present laptop 3GB it's just a third of usable space.Photo's attached

Richview 

[Mart 'n' Al]

I searched on the internet for how much space a clean installation uses and found this. I think you got off lightly.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/how-much-space-does-a-clean-install-of-windows-7/0b3272db-3617-4d53-9a44-3a95a3905d42

Martin

[Richview]

It came installed there is actually very little apart from IE! I thought usable space would be equal to my present laptop which has office, security  etc installed and is only 3GB.

Thanks   
 

[mazi]

Which of the two screenshots is the problem, the first one which shows how much hard drive is used up is unbelievable, I would expect to see a laptop have at least a 350gb hard drive, but yours shows only 55.5 go.

The second screenshot relates to volatile memory and shows you have 4gb of memory. installed, most of it still available, this is perfectly normal.

I cannot understand the top one, even my 12 year old xp machine had more hard disk than that.

Mike

[Richview]

Hi Mike,

My knowledge is very limited! The laptop was reconditioned but the screen was damaged(white bright spots) so I asked for a refund. When I was checking the system properties it was so much lower than my ancient laptop
so I asked why apparently it's correct!! It doesn't look right to me.
My own laptop is 3GB (64 bit) C drive 114 free of 149B d drive 140 free of 148GB - because of the age of my current machine I did remove most of my files etc to an external HD but have always had around 90GB free.

R
"The laptop is advertised as having a 40GB hard drive. The laptop you got has a 60GB hard drive.

I can see some white spots in your images"

[[Ray]]

Hi
So, what was the spec of the HDD that you thought you were buying?     


Windows 7 on a 60gb HDD was quite common "BACK THEN".     


You have typed "3GB". Does what you have typed need correcting?     

You have 4GB of ram and around 60gb hdd.     
You may have a much larger hdd, on your laptop,       
awaiting other partition(s) needing allocating/formatting.     

I can see a method whereby the result is what you have ended up with.     
I need you to answer my first question.
What was the spec of the machine that you thought you were buying?


Ray

[Richview]

My own laptop is 3GB with a C&D drive.

The reconditioned are the screen-shots.  I confess to being useless but expected the "new" laptop to have similar usable space. As there was so little installed  I just thought it was strange.

[[Ray]]

"3gb"?     

What?     
 RAM(memory)? HDD(hard disk drive?)

[andrewalston]

I'd expect a laptop with an i5 processor to have been fitted with a drive of at LEAST 250GB. A 60GB drive (55 usable) would be from about 3 years earlier. The bigger numbers are used when advertising (60*1000*1000*1000), the smaller number reflects 55*1024*1024*1024.

I've just looked through my stocks of second-hand laptop drives, and have only 320GB drives left, having donated all the smaller ones some time back.

4GB of RAM should be fine for running Win7 64-bit unless you are doing something out of the ordinary. The 3.78GB usable is fine; the rest will be used for the display.