Freeing Up Space on Your Hard Disk Drive
The PC comes with a hard disk drive. Depending on your model, the hard disk drive has 20 gigabytes (GB) to more than 250 GB of total disk space. The PC comes with preloaded software programs and a partition within the hard disk drive that takes up a certain amount of space on the hard disk drive.
Note: The System Recovery image is in a partition area of the hard drive; this disk space is not available for your use. Refer to “Using HP Recovery Tools CD” on page 99 for information to make the disk space available.
The partition:
Houses a backup version of the operating system and the programs included with the PC.
Takes up about 5 GB of hard disk space, reducing the total amount of space available for your use.
Can be removed using the Recovery Tools CD. Use the following procedures to:
View the amount of used and free disk space by using the System Tools Disk Management.
Uninstall unneeded programs. Use the Disk Cleanup utility.
Reinstall programs that came with the PC.
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