so many problems with vaio vgn-ar71e

[mmmart]

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?

[jumpsuit]

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?

[mmmart]

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?

[jumpsuit]

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.

[mmmart]

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...

[Thalamus.]

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