HP Pavilion a200 HP Pavilion Desktop PCs - (English) Quick Start Guide SEA/ANZ - Page 137

Freeing Up Space on, Your Hard Disk Drive

Get HP Pavilion a200 - Desktop PC PDF manuals and user guides View all HP Pavilion a200 manuals
Add to My Manuals
Save this manual to your list of manuals

Page 137 highlights

Recover y 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 101 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. Quick Start Guide 109

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • 35
  • 36
  • 37
  • 38
  • 39
  • 40
  • 41
  • 42
  • 43
  • 44
  • 45
  • 46
  • 47
  • 48
  • 49
  • 50
  • 51
  • 52
  • 53
  • 54
  • 55
  • 56
  • 57
  • 58
  • 59
  • 60
  • 61
  • 62
  • 63
  • 64
  • 65
  • 66
  • 67
  • 68
  • 69
  • 70
  • 71
  • 72
  • 73
  • 74
  • 75
  • 76
  • 77
  • 78
  • 79
  • 80
  • 81
  • 82
  • 83
  • 84
  • 85
  • 86
  • 87
  • 88
  • 89
  • 90
  • 91
  • 92
  • 93
  • 94
  • 95
  • 96
  • 97
  • 98
  • 99
  • 100
  • 101
  • 102
  • 103
  • 104
  • 105
  • 106
  • 107
  • 108
  • 109
  • 110
  • 111
  • 112
  • 113
  • 114
  • 115
  • 116
  • 117
  • 118
  • 119
  • 120
  • 121
  • 122
  • 123
  • 124
  • 125
  • 126
  • 127
  • 128
  • 129
  • 130
  • 131
  • 132
  • 133
  • 134
  • 135
  • 136
  • 137
  • 138
  • 139
  • 140
  • 141
  • 142
  • 143
  • 144
  • 145
  • 146
  • 147
  • 148
Quick Start Guide
109
Recovery
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 101 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.