toshiba laptop

alushe · 02-07-2007, 05:31 AM

My mom just bought me this laptop for school for $650, i wanted to know is toshiba a good and reliable brand (bad experience with old hp laptop)? is this a good model for the price? and last i was looking at the space available it says that it has 91 Gb, and 81 free. But the model says it comes with 100 gb?

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Toshi...oductDetail.do

thanks, alsuhe

**The_Other_One** · 02-07-2007, 08:05 AM

It's a nice laptop. Not top of the line, but decent for the price.

Toshiba laptops are pretty nice ones. They would be one of my top choices when looking into new ones.

As for the HD, they are measured in 1000KB rather than 1024KB for 1MB. So you loose a good bit of space. Plus you probably have some sort of restore partition on the drive.

Fr33d0m · 02-07-2007, 08:14 PM

All Toshiba laptops have a hidden recovery partition on there for a lot of people who do not know how to simply reformat a hard drive and reinstall their OS, drivers, and software themselves. This saves time for the average PC user but only takes drave space away from an advanced user. What I do is, pop in the disk for the OS of your choice (Linux, Vista, XP) and delete all partitions and do your own partitioning scheme. That way you for one, have the maximum storage space, and two, have a clean install of your OS without the trial B.S. that most manufacturers have installed on their systems.

shakezula · 02-07-2007, 08:18 PM

can you combine the restore partition? the recovery drive on the laptop to get that extra space back? i do not have any OS disks to reformat.

02-07-2007, 05:31 AM	#1 (permalink)
alushe New Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 24	toshiba laptop My mom just bought me this laptop for school for $650, i wanted to know is toshiba a good and reliable brand (bad experience with old hp laptop)? is this a good model for the price? and last i was looking at the space available it says that it has 91 Gb, and 81 free. But the model says it comes with 100 gb? http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Toshi...oductDetail.do thanks, alsuhe

02-07-2007, 08:05 AM	#2 (permalink)
The_Other_One Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lexington, NC Age: 25 Posts: 13,426	It's a nice laptop. Not top of the line, but decent for the price. Toshiba laptops are pretty nice ones. They would be one of my top choices when looking into new ones. As for the HD, they are measured in 1000KB rather than 1024KB for 1MB. So you loose a good bit of space. Plus you probably have some sort of restore partition on the drive. __________________ Primary- i7 920 \| 6GB RAM \| 9800GT \| 160+160+500GB Secondary- Athlon X2 4200 \| 2GB RAM \| 7600GT \| 80+250GB Netbook - Atom N280 \| 2GB RAM \| GMA945\| 160GB

02-07-2007, 08:14 PM	#3 (permalink)
Fr33d0m New Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 11	All Toshiba laptops have a hidden recovery partition on there for a lot of people who do not know how to simply reformat a hard drive and reinstall their OS, drivers, and software themselves. This saves time for the average PC user but only takes drave space away from an advanced user. What I do is, pop in the disk for the OS of your choice (Linux, Vista, XP) and delete all partitions and do your own partitioning scheme. That way you for one, have the maximum storage space, and two, have a clean install of your OS without the trial B.S. that most manufacturers have installed on their systems. __________________ NOTHING is impossible

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shakezula Bronze Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 25	can you combine the restore partition? the recovery drive on the laptop to get that extra space back? i do not have any OS disks to reformat.