N120 partition... Are you given the option "not to partition" or at least chose the amount of space the hidden file uses?
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You are correct. Mine was split into a C and D drive, each with around 72 GB of free space. After you turn your N120 on, you have pop-ups from Samsung come up regarding their "Samsung Recovery Solution" and according to other reviews I've read, it is during this that you are given the opportunity to resize the two hard drives. What I read was that you will find 2 sliding bars which you will use to increase or decrease the two drives. You will have the 2 drives no matter what, your only option is how much "space" to give them. I am not very computer savvy and clicked thru these pop-ups as best as possible with out really unhderstanding them and wound up with 2 drives of 72 GB each. And I'm now told that if I want to change this I have to buy some software program designed to let you resize your drives and that I can no longer change it just with what I already own. This ticked me off to no end as all this "Samsung Recovery Solution" stuff comes up before you can get a look at the instruction/tutorial for the unit which is on the desktop of your unit. I was sorely tempted to say the unit was damaged and send it back for a new one just so I could avoid this now that I knew what to do with those pop-ups. This will pop up when you do the auto start registration of your unit. They really need a better paper, hard copy of the instructions/tutorial regarding the beginning stuff you come across after you turn your unit on. BTW, the above info regarding the sliding scales you use to determine your HD space is all 2nd to me from others in other reviews and from what I assumed when finally reading the tutorial...it is nothing I have seen first hand. I hope it all turns out ok for you, BC
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It is probably a software pre-installed on the drive that is telling you to do that. If you don't want to use it, format the drive before you start using.
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It is a hardware clone tool, I can't see any way partition until after the clone is made. Then you can go into disk management and make a new partition with the extra space on the drive. I cloned a 500gb hard drive, and there were two partitions that used 120 gb, the resultant min size of these two partitions was 320gb leaving me the remaining space to make other partitions or do whatever I like.
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it is around 12GB. It will have a recovery partition that consumes few GB. If you are an advanced user and don't care about it, you may be able to take that out, though not recommended. Rakesh #IntelTablets (I work for Intel).
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You'll loose some space to formatting. For instance it may only be 105GB instead of the 120GB.
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Sorry I can't be of any help regarding your question as I have not found storage to be a problem.
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It'd probably be best to consult the WD web site. I didn't partition mine, but I did make it bootable.
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Only 128 GB is usable. The rest was wasted on OS junk no one needs. Thanks.
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I cannot comment on the WD software disabling this if it gives you what you are talking about. But if you search your favorite site you'll find links to the HP USB Disk Storage Format tool so you can wipe out the entire drive. If I check properties in Windows, it says my drive when blank now is 465GB (500,079,493,120 bytes). I figure that is about as close to 500GB you are going to get.
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I will agree with the other two comments.. Just upgrade the drive to a larger size. Storage is pretty cheap these days. Good Luck!
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Sorry, I run Windows, don't do "I" products, the actual available storage is slightly less than 500GB's, so if you need 500 I'd go bigger, there is a 750 & a 1TB on Amazon
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If it didn't accept a size that was bigger that would mean that it came formatted to FAT32, and it would need to be formatted to NTFS, the only downside of NTFS being that if you pull it out without safely removing, there is a bigger chance of corruption. To reformat it to NTFS just look up some guide on google.
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Yes, you need to format the drive. Search for: Ggparted partition editor it's free
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Depends on the operating system. There are linux installs you could back up with 100MB. If you're talking Windows 7, its doubtful you could get 1 copy onto a 16GB flash drive. You might be able to get 1 clean install of windows on that, but it would be tight (remember, the 16gb drive is 16000MB which is actually like 14GB). My OS drive has 35GB, and that's basically Windows only since most of my programs/app data files are all on a different drive. Tl;dr: you can partition it however you want, but you aren't going to be putting any windows backups on a 16GB flash drive.
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none that i have found. just keep in mind that u won't get exactly 160GB,s of free space, because the drive had to be programmed ie formatted in order to be used. but u should have ample space for your videos.
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There isn't that much space you can free up. I recommend that you store all non essential files on an external drive of get a micro SD card which can give you up to 64GB extra space.
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When formatted properly there was plenty of space. Around 30 I think. But drive died after 2 months.