Missing(?) 24gb of storage space

DRJ1014

DRJ1014

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Noob question inc!

So I purchased a 128gb SSD with my alienware m15x and it displays "XX free of 104GB"

Is the missing(?) space the recovery partition or did I get jipped out of 24GB?

If its a recovery file how would I go about deleting it?

With such a small main drive im desperate for more space.
 
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Did you happen to buy a OCZ drive?
A normal 120GB drive should be about 111GB formatted.
 
Thread was helpful but im missing 24gb of space and on a 128gb drive thats quite a lot of space to be missing.

Edited the first post as its 128 not 120 ssd... sorry about that.

I am unsure if its OCZ
 
What does Disk Management say? Start button -> search for "diskmgmt.msc"

Even the "120GB" 25nm OCZ drives should format out to 107GB, so it sounds like something else.
 
havermeyer saves the day.

I dunno what I smoked this morning but checking disk management slipped my mind

"Recovery 14.65GB"

How would I go about removing this?
 
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You should be able to delete it in Windows 7 Disk management. Then possibly Extend the current partition by right clicking on it.
 
Also could be space taken up by system restore or swapfile.

Disable hibernation as well to reclaim a lot of space.
 
Pretty big fail from alienware. It's crazy to use such an expensive drive to hold a system restore image.
 
Not really a fail on Alienwares part. Its for convenience and a good feature for novice. More experience users will do a fresh install and blow out the partitions anyway.
 
JohnleMVP said:
Not really a fail on Alienwares part. Its for convenience and a good feature for novice. More experience users will do a fresh install and blow out the partitions anyway.
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Wouldn't you want to burn a copy of it before you deleted it?

It's probably got all the drivers and would make for an easy bare-metal reinstall.....like when it's sold.
 
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