Guest donp Posted March 22, 2003 Report Share Posted March 22, 2003 Hello just joined. I have Packard Bell I Media 5094. Whilst not an expert, I have experienced many problems so far. Could anyone answer the question. The unit came with I am told with an 80gb Hard Drive but, the size listed is 72.5 gb. has anyone have an explanation surely XP Home cannot be that size?. Thank you in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted March 22, 2003 Report Share Posted March 22, 2003 Often the manufacturers quote 1gb =1000mb whereas 1gb is actually 1024mb. So 72.5gb listed in windows isn't too far away.what sort of problems are you experiencing ?what does windows show as used ?and of course welcome to windows forum :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted March 22, 2003 Report Share Posted March 22, 2003 Also with it being a Packard Bell it will have no doubt come with a red restore floppy? if so then there will be a hidden partion on the HD were the restore files are kept.Ps - Welcome to Windows forum Donp ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest donp Posted March 22, 2003 Report Share Posted March 22, 2003 Thank you Mark, trying to compose a letter to Packard Bell complaining of all the things that have gone wrong plus are still not right. I will not bore you. Perhaps just one: the CDRW seems to have two sets of software, ROxio and Veritas. One is much faster than the other but, I wish I knew which, and are two needed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted March 22, 2003 Report Share Posted March 22, 2003 Maybe we can solve the problems here if they are only software related.Unfortunately I cannot help with the choice of CDRW software to use, I have used Roxio's Easy Cd creator and found it oK.Never used veritas so cannot offer an opinion, but currently I am using Nero for my burning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted March 22, 2003 Report Share Posted March 22, 2003 I also use Nero as it came free with my drive and it does the job well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted March 22, 2003 Report Share Posted March 22, 2003 Hi donphave you just started using XPit takes up about 3 gig and as mark2 has 1 GB = 1024MBso that sounds about right as you also have some software i assume installedmadboy33 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted March 22, 2003 Report Share Posted March 22, 2003 roxio is installed as part of xp and I dont think it can be uninstalled,Veritas has been installed by packard bell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest he he :-)™ Posted March 22, 2003 Report Share Posted March 22, 2003 That happened 2 me 60 GB went 2 55 GB I narrowed it down to the reason it doesn't show the pre-installed software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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