topic Re: so many problems with vaio vgn-ar71e in PCs & Accessories

so many problems with vaio vgn-ar71e

mmmart — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:59:24 GMT

hi.its my first post.i want 2 say hallo!
my notebook its so lovely,i love the screen and sound,and all of those little cute things in there,but i have serious problem.
there sopost2 b 250gb hard drive and there is just 175gb on C drive.dnt understand.
second problem is i cant connect to home hub...i just cant...try everything...lan is on...i can see wireless but cannot connect....should I give back my notebook?.cuz im alone here,no one can help me and i cant have a phone support cuz my English is so pure....tomorrow is my birthday and im just miserable now...maybe someone can help me?

Re: so many problems with vaio vgn-ar71e

jumpsuit — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:08:00 GMT

Hi there!

When you get your notebook the operating system takes up some of that space along with preinstalled applications.
(You can always uninstall those that you don't want)

There is also a recovery partition of about 8-9 Gig I think.

Firstly regarding connection have you installed all the updates?

Re: so many problems with vaio vgn-ar71e

mmmart — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:24:59 GMT

hi.i know that system will take some space but u know....75gb?....its really a lot! i think its something wrong there.

laptop its brand new,settings and everything its just like it was...when i wanted to connet first time i didnt installed all the updates.....what updates? from where?

Re: so many problems with vaio vgn-ar71e

jumpsuit — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:42:05 GMT

Sorry, do you have an ethernet connection to try?

If so when you connect to the internet you should see a Vaio Udate window open.

Re: so many problems with vaio vgn-ar71e

mmmart — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:06:03 GMT

everything is like it should be...there are 2 wireless detected and the window its open but windows cnt recognize the problem....im trying again and again and nothing happened...

Re: so many problems with vaio vgn-ar71e

Thalamus. — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:45:24 GMT

Hi mmmart,

the difference in hard drive size is partly due to the different way manufactures and Microsoft report the sizes..

Manufacturers use the SI scale for example 1KB = 1000 bytes

Microsoft, ie windows XP/Vista, use the binary, for example 1KB = 1024 bytes

Therefore manufactures 250 GB hard drive = 250,000,000,000

Whereas MS 250 GB hard drive = 232 GB

then as Jumpsuit mentioned another 8-9 GB for the recovery partition brings it down to 224 GB..

You may be able to reclaim some space by following the tips in this thread: HERE