Noob ?s about G74SX-BBK

[twofourzero]

Just purchased the laptop and noticed it has three? hard drives. I was under the impression that it had a 1Tb HD but when I look in "my computer" I have three.

#1 c:drive is labeled "OS" and says 440gb
#2 d:drive is labeled "SDATA1" and says 232gb
#3 e:drive is labeled "SDATA2" and again says 232gb

Is this just the 1Tb HD partitioned? If not what is going on....if so how do I utilize them to best support the computers
performance.


Thank you for the help!!!

[BrodyBoy]

Those are just volumes, commonly called drives. That's not the same as physical hard disks.

You have two 500Gb hard disks. One has the C: partition on it (along with a hidden 25Gb recovery partition), and the other has been partitioned into two 232Gb data drives.