Regarding HP dv6700 laptop - please help

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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Welcome to CE, William. Your search ends on CE. Say bye to all other forums and join hands with us!
  
  j/k !
  
  Alright, I'll try to answer your questions one by one -
  
  1. Laptop battery consumption depends on various factors. If you are burning CD or watching movies, with screen brightness set to max, the battery will surely go down fast. As far as 6 cell battery is concerned, I guess the behavior is normal, you can't expect more from 6 cell battery & 15-17 inch screen. Don't worry, your laptop & battery are normal.
  
  2. Do this: Right click on 'Computer' -> Manage -> Continue -> Computer Management window opens. Go to Storage/Disk Management. Probably, the remaining space is unpartitioned.
  
  3. My best guess is that you have lot of setup files and unwanted software available on your computer hard drive (C😀. Try enabling "View Hidden Files & Folders" in any explorer window. Let us know your findings.
  
  4. No, that's not remote, but rather this -> Expresscard
  
  5. If you have Vista, you will not be able to install Win XP, Win 9x. Of course, you can install them, but the procedure is to install the earlier version of Windows first and then the latest. No one in the world can stop you from installing Unix based OS on your machine.
  
  I hope I've answered your questions. Others, please let me know if my answers are correct.
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  williamkane

  hello Big K,
  
  Thanks for your reply. Definitely one of the fastest replies I have ever received. Now when I know that I cannot get faster and clear replies anywhere else, I will obviously stick to crazyengineers 😀 .
  
  By the way, I checked if the remaining 18gb out of 250 gb has been left unpartitioned. But there I see only 232.22 GB overall. I cannot see any unpartitioned space. So I still dont understand where did that 18 gb go 😔 .
  
  And I also checked for hidden files and none of them were so huge to increase the disk occupancy so much. It would be of great help if some user of Vista & HP laptop combo can tell me what was their C drive space before installing any programs. Any rough estimate will do. Please help me understand my laptop 😀 .
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Thanks for your good words 😁 I guess CEan - Rahuljam can help you, he's THE ONE who can answer.
  
  Anyone else knows what's going on inside William's HP notebook?
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  williamkane

  Hello BIG K,
  
  I just wanted to tell you that I have finally found answers to my questions posted in this thread. They are as follows -
  
  for 2) The reason why I see 232GB instead of 250GB is because Computer manufacturers take one GB as 1000 MB and 1 MB as 1000 KB and 1 KB as 1000 bytes. Now
  (1000(bytes)x1000(KB)x1000(MB)x250(GB)) / (1024(bytes)x1024(KB)x1024(MB)x250(GB)) = 232.83 GB (this is the reply i got when I asked this question on a different forum, I feel this is right)
  
  
  for 3) The missing space was consumed by the SYSTEM RESTORE feature. (again, answered by the same guy).
  
  I sincerely thank you for your enthusiastic replies. The moment I created a thread for my query, I was expecting the mod to delete it calling it irrelevant as this is no laptop help forum. But I was completely flattered when moderator was the only guy who took the pain to answer my questions. Brilliant effort. You will only inspire me to address the queries and problems of people around rather than ignore them. Thanks again 😀.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  William, we all are happy that you have found answers to your questions. We are more happy that you cared to share the answers you found with us, so that they will help others.
  
  We are engineers over here and we are uniting to make the world a better place to live. We hope you are with us!
  
  This is bit off-topic, but I thought I'd post it here. Keep up the CEan spirit!
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  Anil Jain

  williamkane

  Hello BIG K,
  
  I just wanted to tell you that I have finally found answers to my questions posted in this thread. They are as follows -
  
  for 2) The reason why I see 232GB instead of 250GB is because Computer manufacturers take one GB as 1000 MB and 1 MB as 1000 KB and 1 KB as 1000 bytes. Now
  (1000(bytes)x1000(KB)x1000(MB)x250(GB)) / (1024(bytes)x1024(KB)x1024(MB)x250(GB)) = 232.83 GB (this is the reply i got when I asked this question on a different forum, I feel this is right)
  
  
  for 3) The missing space was consumed by the SYSTEM RESTORE feature. (again, answered by the same guy).
  
  I sincerely thank you for your enthusiastic replies. The moment I created a thread for my query, I was expecting the mod to delete it calling it irrelevant as this is no laptop help forum. But I was completely flattered when moderator was the only guy who took the pain to answer my questions. Brilliant effort. You will only inspire me to address the queries and problems of people around rather than ignore them. Thanks again 😀.

  
  I was away so I saw this thread a little late. This missing disk space we had already discussed at #-Link-Snipped-#. May be this may help you in enhancing your knowledge a little more.
  
  Thanks for the good words for CE, We hope that you will continue posting on CE and would be a active CEan
  
  -Crazy