HP Pavillion dv6748us Hard drive question LOTS OF POINTS :D?

Question

I have a brand new HP laptop. I look at the memory it says I have 1.93Gigs of memory and I am suppost to have 250gigs of memory.. where is the rest of my memory? Specs below: any help is appercaited

Product Name dv6748us

Product Number KC317UA#ABA

Microprocessor 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-60

Microprocessor Cache 512KB+512KB L2 Cache

Memory 2048 MB (2 x 1024 MB)

Memory Max Up to 4 GB

Video Graphics NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M

Video Memory Up to 799 MB

Hard Drive 250 GB (5400 rpm)

Multimedia Drive LightScribe Super Multi 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support

Display 15.4" WXGA High-Definition* BrightView Widescreen (1280 x 800)

Fax/Modem High speed 56K modem

Network Card Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN

Wireless Connectivity Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g/n

Sound Altec Lansing speakers

Keyboard 101-key compatible & 2 Quick Launch Buttons

Pointing Device Touch Pad with On/Off button and dedicated vertical scroll Up/Down pad

PC Card Slots One ExpressCard/54 slot (also supports ExpressCard/34)

External Ports 5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, or xD Picture cards

3 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0

2 Headphone out

1 microphone-in

1 VGA (15-pin)

1 TV-Out (S-video)

1 RJ-11 (modem)

1 RJ -45 (LAN)

1 notebook expansion port 3

1 IEEE 1394 Firewire (4-pin)

1 Consumer IR

Dimensions 14.05" (W) x 10.12" (D) x 1" (min H)/1.56" (max H)

Weight 6.06lbs

Answer 1

So it says 193GB of space on the drive, that would mean that the OS is taking up some of that but is should only be taking about 10GB MAX in any situation. Other than that HP puts a recovery partition on most of its computers, both of those would be sucking up that space.

Answer 2

Looks fine to me, you have 2 GiB RAM, OS reports 1.93 GB (but it actually means 1.93 GiB, windows has some bugs in) and you've got integrated graphics that steals a bit from system RAM which explains where the 0.07 Gib (probably 64 MiB) missing from the RAM went.

The OS also reports your 250 GB hard drive as 220 GB but is actually reporting 220 GiB (but misstating it due to a windows bug) which is 236 GB, I'd say there's a 14 GB recovery partition somewhere (that seems a bit excessive to me though).

Answer 3

1.93 is your RAM

go into computer folder, check c:\ and theres your space.

windows will not show the same numbers as the ones you purchased.

2GB ram will not show up as 2GB

250GB will not show up as 250GB

they will all show up less

this is because the manufacturer calculations and windows calculations are diffrent.

manufacturer = 1GB is 1000MB

windows = 1GB is 1024MB

so when windows rounds the space calculations off it shows up as lesss. but it's all there.

Answer 4

Make sure you are not mixing up ram and hard drive memory. A lot of people do and panic. Or, you must have 1.93gb separated from the other 248gb.

Answer 5

Windows and commputer makers rate the hard drive gigabytes differently . If you buy a computer and the specs say it has a 160gb hard drive when you go into my computer it will usually say you something like 149gb , just a different system of rating