Replaced HDD in my macbook

hi people, recently my 4 mth old macbook's HDD died. so they replaced a new HDD for me . sad to say, i din had the chance to backup anything so everything was gone. but actually that's not the main pt.
the thing is , when i got my mac, about 30GB is gone missing. not very sure how that happen since previously when i first bought it there was more than 100GB. Any idea how to get back the missing space back?
another issue is that at the side bar, they'll usually put ______'s computer. but it is evidently not my name since it put Izwan Khuzair's Computer. Does anyone know how to change it back to my name?
Thanks in advance.

nikoflame wrote:
the thing is , when i got my mac, about 30GB is gone missing. not very sure how that happen since previously when i first bought it there was more than 100GB. Any idea how to get back the missing space back?
You might want to reinstall your OS so that it is back to new. They may have installed some diagnostics software on your machine. You could also use the info here for help in deleting some stuff.
The XLab: Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk
another issue is that at the side bar, they'll usually put ______'s computer. but it is evidently not my name since it put Izwan Khuzair's Computer. Does anyone know how to change it back to my name?
The easiest way is to right click the name in the side bar and choose rename. If that was changed you need to check your account in systems preferences to see what was put there.

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