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  1. Euroman

    Euroman Well-Known Member

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    I bought a new comp on Monday after my old one packed in after 10 years.

    It is an Acer Aspire XC840. It has a 1TB SSD. When I click on This PC only C and D drives are showing. Does anyone have any idea why? Any sensible suggestions welcome.
     
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    Farnham_Red Administrator Staff Member Admin

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    I may be missing something but isnt your C: Drive the 1TB SSD?
     
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    Is the 1TB drive partitioned into a C: and D: drive?
     
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    Other option is the 1TB is all C: drive and the optical drive is your D: drive
     
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    Euroman Well-Known Member

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    The D drive is showing 463GB free of 465GB.
     
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    I don’t understand? Don’t the C and D drives add up to just under 1Tb?
    Bear in mind there’s likely a hidden partition with a factory backup, and 1Tb usually means something over 900Gb

    do the Cand D drives add up to over 900Gb?
     
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    What is the C drive showing?
     
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    and if you have a DVD drive and you put a disc in do you then see another drive?
     
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    It's possible that Acer have reserved some if both drives don't add up to 1Gb.

    What you are seeing does seem quite normal though.
     
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    Also, you say only C and D showing, what were you expecting to see?
     
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    Sounds like there is one physical SSD drive partitioned into 2 logical drives.
    C:\ will be your system partition - where all your 'stuff' goes.
    D:\ will have the backup and restore data and all the Acer bloatware and gubbins.

    Doubt a modern laptop has a DVD drive, but if it does:
    C:\ is your full physical SSD drive
    D:\ is the DVD player
     
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    Unlikely to be an optical drive on a new laptop.
     
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    Sounds to me like it has 1TB of SSD storage, but not a 1TB SSD. Likely 2 500 GB drives.

    Also obligatory message to try Linux, much more private and just as easily usable as Windows these days. I made the jump a couple of months ago and it's just infinitely better. No more closing my work to force updates, no more snooping/ad data collection, way more customisable, and now plays all my games via Steam as well ;)
     
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    They've partitioned the drive by the sounds roughly 50/50 split your operating system will be on the C drive along with any software the D drive is probably for data
     
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    Which Linux version? I have an older laptop on windows 10 which runs really slow. I added Ubuntu a while ago as dual boot up and just don't bother booting Windows up any more. I have another older laptop which I will use just for email and office stuff, I am going to wipe everything and just install Linux on it.
     
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    Mac.
     
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    This is a desktop PC and does come with a DVD drive. The optical drive letter does not usually show unless a disc is in it (prob be E:). So this sounds like the 1TB ssd is partitioned into 2, hence drives C: & D: nothing to worry over, you still have 1TB of disk space
     
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    Think I need a sit down and a cup of tea after that conversation,no idea what they were on about :confused:
     
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