Just bought a laptop today from futureshop. Here it is http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pr... The laptop supposed to have 80 GB of Hard drive but once I turned on the laptop and in My Computer, in the C:\ drive it says 22 GB free space out of 32 GB?? There is another drive, D:\, it says 33 GB free out of 33GB. Combine them together theres only 65 GB of Total size?? Can anyone explain this? **Another thing it also says on the laptop that it only has 766MB of Ram memory, when it supposed to have 1GB RAM (1024MB)??

As for the 80gb hard drive, it looks like they formatted the computer and partitined the drives into two different drives but it could still be one hard drive. Usually when you have an 80gb drive once your computer gets up and running you dont see the full 80gb although 65gb seems too far from, i could understand seeing 72gb + As for the ram I think you should give them a call and ask them why you dont seem to have the full specs as advertised. ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe Mobo AMD Athlon XP 2800+ 1gb DDR400 Ram. Geforce 6800 LE overclocked. 400-450W Power Supply?

Does the hard drive model number show in device manager or on the posting screen when you first start it up? If so, post back that model number. Where does it show that ram figure? Posting screen/cmos or in the OS?

Most OEM builders use a hidden harddrive partition at the beginning of the drive to store the restore files. In addition to that, it appears your HDrive has been partitioned. Look in disk manament to see what file format is used on the boot partition. It may be FAT32. The 32GB size is the largest size WinXP can format using FAT32. At any rate your entire drive is probably there. Laptops can only have ONE HDrive. Your laptop has integrated graphics that has both dedicated RAM and uses system RAM (memory). The specs for you computer indicate the graphics can use up to 128GB of system RAM. If you enter the BIOS screens I think you will find the shared RAM set to 128GB. The additional 2MB is used by the BIOS. All those numbers add up to 1GB. Look at the link below for info on the graphics chipset. http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors...

The disk Drive is ST980811AS ATA Device It looks like my Video took up to 256 mb ram so therefore it only showed 766 mb ram. About the Hard drive, it is partition in 3 drive. One takes 10GB for EISA configuration. The others are Acer C:\ and Data D:\ drives (like i mentioned above). I cannot merge these two using Disk management or Partition Magic. Is there other way i can merge the D:\ drive (which says 32gb free out of 32 gb) into the C:\ drive somehow. If not, how do I use up the space in the D:\ drive?

Don't bother trying to merge the C & D partitions. Just use the D drive to store anything you like. When you save anything you can direct it into the D drive. You can create folders there for any use just by right clicking on the drive using Windows Explorer and select NEW from the menu. You can drag and drop files such as docs etc from any location into the D drive. You can also in some cases instal software onto the D drive instead of the default C location. I used to have a signature but it disappeared and I just couldn't be bothered writing another so please feel free to ingore this.

FAT32 does not have a size limit that I am aware of, my primary 60gb is 1 FAT32 partition. My 120gb was 1 FAT32 partition until I converted it to NTFS so I could handle files larger than 4.5gbs. It just sounds like the place that sold the laptop did not know how to properly set up the HD and split it into 2 partitions. Either merge the partitions or take it back and explain the issue. As for the missing space, most likely a restore partition.