i just got my new toshiba laptop with a 250 gig hard drive. the drive only shows 231gb though. anyway, i want to partition my hard drive so that i can install XP pro or possibly Linux. i figure 30gigs sounded GOOD. i installed the recovery disk because it has a partition program on it and after i partioned it and restored the OS, it showed my c drive at 200gb but the partition for the other 31 gigs wasnt there. so, i just performed a complete factory restore and i am up for any ideas on how i can get this done without having to recover the dang thing again and have to reinstall everything. Also, any ideas on my last post concerning Memory question is greatly appreciated. i want to know what is best, 2 gigs of ddr2 pc5300 or 3 gigs of ddr4200. i want to get the most out of this expensive thing. it is a satellite A215-S7472. i didnt know if more ram was better than having faster ram. THANKS for everything and all you guys input.So you have XP on the laptop now? Actual HDD sizes:



Chart Courtesy of WESTERN Digital.no, i have vista premium. thanks for the hard drive info also. anybody have any input on the memory issue i posted about. i THINK i will be better off with the 2 gigs of ddr2 pc5300. it says hypermemory on the chips. the others were a 1 gig chip and the other was a 2 gig chip. they werent the same brand. i researched and seen its better to install memory in identical PAIRS. i am still up for ideas. thanks for everything everybody.