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16 Sep 2008, 12:37 pm

I ordered my computer with a single hard drive (one terabyte, by the way) but it shows that I have two. One's called "HP (C:)" and the other is called Factory_Image (D:).

My noob guess is that it's not an actual physical drive but a partition of C: with the manufacturer's factory setting on it that I can access in the event of a crash or something.



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16 Sep 2008, 1:18 pm

Its one hard drive, but it has 2 partitions, one is the recovery partition, which is for reloading windoz, the other is for running windoz.



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16 Sep 2008, 3:20 pm

digger1 wrote:
I ordered my computer with a single hard drive (one terabyte, by the way) but it shows that I have two. One's called "HP (C:)" and the other is called Factory_Image (D:).

My noob guess is that it's not an actual physical drive but a partition of C: with the manufacturer's factory setting on it that I can access in the event of a crash or something.


Your noob guess is correct ! !! Check the manual, prolly a CD for details. A terabtyte is quite impressive ! !!


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