New HP Envy 6 ultrabook

[McCloud]

Hi,

I just bought a HP Envy 6 ultrabook. It came with a pre-installed Windows 7 Home premium 64bit.
The problem is with my disk drives. It's supposed to have a 500GB HDD and a 32GB SSD. It's looking like this now:

http://i50.tinypic.com/11speeg.png

After I open the recovery disk:
http://i50.tinypic.com/2q0ps3l.png

And Disk managment:
http://i45.tinypic.com/2it53kz.jpg

First I thought the Windows partition is the HDD and the recovery is the SSD.
But there would be too much size reduction (from 500gb to 444gb is I think way too much). Other possibility is, that the ssd is not even there. And the BIOS is totaly useless, providing no info at all. I also thought about shrinking/formating all the other partitions. Is it alright?

I tried to disassemble the book, but I gave this up as well
It looks exactly like this:
http://cdn.pocket-lint.com/images/G38H/hp-envy-ultrabook-sleepbook-hands-on-9.jpg

But after I unscrew everything, the case just won't come off (I don't think it's a good way to remove it forcefully, especially because I got the book 3 days).

Essentially, my goal is to know what drives and partitions I have on my notebook and to have as few unneeded partitions as possible. Also I want my OS to be on the SSD (of course if it is there )

Thanks for help guys

 

[wolfeking]

32 GB is extremely small for windows 7, but that is probably where windows 7 is on your computer.

as for the 444GB, that is the formatted size minus the recovery partition. You will never get the full size of your hard drive ever. The drive manufactures use 1000MB per GB, where the computer uses 1024MB to a GB. Basically the biggest 1TB you will ever be able to get is 976GB because of the difference in measurement. (blame that on the hard drive manufacturer).

 

[McCloud]

Well, I know of course I won't get the full size of the disk. But from 500gb to only 444gb is strange. Also I want to know, where that SSD is on my system (or how to determine, which of the drives is a ssd)

 

[wolfeking]

488 is what you have access to. of that 44GB is set aside for your restore partition most likely, depending on if they compressed the restore partition or not.