Satellite P10-792 harddisk size 27GB instead of 60GB?

Just unpacked and spent the last week installing my P10-792 and now (...) I notice that the C-drive is only 27 GB whereas the drive itself is about 60 GB. There is an unnamed volume of about the same size (27 GB).
In the FAQ I found a remedy regarding resizing partitions using the restore-CD, but this probably means installing the entire machine all over again.
Please help me out. I would like to use the entire drive and not just half of it.
Thanks, Stephan

I have a 40 GB HDD and my computer shows 2 partitions 'C' and 'D' of 18,6 GB each.
I think that the difference is because manufacturers show the value of their HDD in Gbytes.
Computers recognizes bytes which is 1MB=1024 bytes and 1GB = 1024MB.
If you do the maths you will see that the real value is closer to the written.
You also hava to exclude the space in your HDD which is used for mechanical safety reason (This space depends on manufacturer and the tecnology is used - Not very big).
The other i have to tell you is that you use the NTFS or FAT32 depending on the applications you want to use and not depending on the operating system. NTFS for the hard ones (Databases, Server apps etc) and Fat32 for the soft (games, Ms office etc). You CAN share files between these two formats without any risk.
My suggestion is to leave your computer as it is because there is a lot of risk loosing your data when 'playing' with partitiong tools.
If you decide it use Partition magic. It is the best in market.
Regards, Paul

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