Hard Drive Windows 8 question

Sidrelly

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Dec 6, 2013
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I just bought a new pc (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883220509) and it was listed as having a 1TB hard drive. But my C: drive is only 149Gb. Strangely, there is a D: drive that has 764GB free, but absolutely nothing on it. Is this the rest of the hard drive? Can someone explain how the hell this works.
 
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They created the OS/Applications Drive C, then used the rest to make a D for DATA (pictures, videos, downloads, etc.) 'seperate' so when they tell you 'restore Windows' (which wipes all your data, programs, etc. and puts it back like the very first day you ever used it) it will only wipe the C drive and you stuff on D is supposedly safe.

This is pretty BS these days as most of the time the entire HardDrive fails, so it doesn't matter how many partitions (splitting up into different letter drives) you do it, the whole drive fails.
They created the OS/Applications Drive C, then used the rest to make a D for DATA (pictures, videos, downloads, etc.) 'seperate' so when they tell you 'restore Windows' (which wipes all your data, programs, etc. and puts it back like the very first day you ever used it) it will only wipe the C drive and you stuff on D is supposedly safe.

This is pretty BS these days as most of the time the entire HardDrive fails, so it doesn't matter how many partitions (splitting up into different letter drives) you do it, the whole drive fails.
 
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