Hi, On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Anubhav Yadav <anubhav1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2) As you can see in the screenshot, gparted shows that the hdd is > only 698 gb whereas when purchased it was 720 GB. Any ways to recover > the lost sectors back?
As people pointed out, GB and GiB are different[1]. However, 720GB is 670.6 GiB, and 698GiB (i don't know gparted) is 749.5 GB; and no one mentioned the fact that FATs take up space too. About your disk, 5400 RPMs vs 7200 does make a difference, but you'll notice it both in Windows and Debian. The slowness you've been noticing, as people have pointed out, may be due do GNOME and whichever start-up proggies it has. I'd recommend LXDE, XFCE or fluxbox instead of awesome though. As for partitioning - backup your data first. If instead you want to keep some partitions untouched, the Debian installer allows you to (but don't go automatic). If you're gonna wipe the disk clean, i'd recommend using LVM and setting small partitions. You can always grow them later (shrinking them depends on the underlying filesystem - you can't shrink XFS). Don't bother virtualizing windows if you want it for games (but that's just me), for that you should just keep dual-booting. Careful if you're reinstalling everything - Windows will clear your MBR, so install it first (you may partition an NTFS for it and leave the rest unpartitioned), and only after install Debian. My 2¢. HTH, Nuno [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cadqa9uyxz4eg0gbk1zb24d2mjnoi9sy_3aau1ew9lxvthry...@mail.gmail.com
