Hi I have bought a laptop recently, this one in fact: http://www.tiny.com/packages.php?prodid=12875 As you can see it says it has 40G harddrive on the specs yet when i look at the properties of the c: it says 35G. I phoned Tiny to ask about this and they said the missing 5G is taken up by windows. Is this bull@;1t? I have built desktop PC's before and installed windows myself and the properties alway show the full harddrive size. Is there another reason there is 5G missing? Also adding to my concern, when i check the specs in control panel/system/general I get the following info Mobile Athlon XP-M 2800+ 1.58 GHz 448MB Ram Shouldn't an athlonXP 2800 processor give out more than 1.58GHz? and the specs from Tiny say i should have 512MB of RAM not 448. Am i being short changed here or is this all normal? Finally (last one i promise) I've recently installed SP2 for XP and now everytime I launch explorer i get the pop up: "To help protect you security, IE has restricted this file from showing active content that could access your computer" Whilst not a huge problem it is rather annoying, is there away to stop this? Thanks in advance newmski

Could be a hidden partition where they put the i\386 files and drivers like Compaq/Hp do. The memory may be shared memory for the video. Athalon numbers do not use the same scheme as Intel. So a 2800 is not a 2.8ghz. Many laptop manufacturers use lower speed chips to keep the heat down and extend battery , but usually give a good L1 and/or L2 cache size to compensate. Go to Ie and change the default security settings and maybe disable the built in firewall in order to learn at what level you are comfortable with security wise. Larry

Cheers larry. I think you maybe right with the HD issue. With the processor, I've just been checking around and apparently an Athlon 2800 should be at around 2.1GHZ so still stuck on that one.

You might check the bios and see if the multiplier there is set correctly. Before making any changes though, I'd contact the manf'r and find out what the bus speed should be so you don't accidently overclock the cpu. Larry

Make sure you are looking at the correct model die for that 2800+ chip. I have a 64~3000+ that runs at 2.0 naturely. But specs vary with the chip model.

As you can see it says it has 40G harddrive on the specs yet when i look at the properties of the c: it says 35G If your kaptop did not come with native XP CD, then the missing 5GB may be reserved as a hidden partition containing system restore. Go to start / run, type in %windir%\System32\DISKMGMT.MSC This will open the Disk Management pane. See if the 5G HD shows up as EISA configuration. If it does, that is your missing 5GB. i_XpUser

Hi XpUser Tried your idea and all that comes up is the 35.08G Basic Drive and the CD-rom drive. I have a copy of XP here, tempted to format and start from scratch, after all thats more space than an ipod mini!