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Comment on I bought an HP Laptop with 8gb of Ram...and was suppose to be 256gb SSD. I downloaded one game and its all the way down to 80. Is there any free software to download to help?

Carnelian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Probably just a lot of bloatware. When I’ve been in this situation in the past, I did a completely fresh install of windows. Much smaller. Linux can free up even more space.

There really isn’t anything necessary from HP, but it also depends a lot on your comfort working with the computer so ymmv. I don’t know what’s gonna happen if 3 months down the line you need to call customer support for something. If it were me, I’d be thinking “worst case scenario I can just factory reset”, especially if I had everything important backed up somewhere.

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adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
so long as it’s under warranty. yea. make sure you have a way to actually do the ‘factory reset’.

if you nix the partitions during a ‘clean install’ of windows or of linux, you won’t.

unless you’ve made a backup image of the hdd to an external (using reflect or similar), or in hp’s case–download their recovery media creator (runs on windows only but doesn’t have to be the target system) and build a recovery flash drive for your model.

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