[X4U] Bigger drive, less space?

[Matt Gregory]

I'm guessing you've got about 20G of unpartitioned space ... what does Info
or Disk Utility report as the max size now after the restore?  100G or 80G?

matt.

On 8/16/06, Bill White <billwhite at mac.com> wrote:
>
> My five month old MacBook Pro had its battery explode and its logic board
> die, and the day after it came back from Apple its hard drive failed.
> Fortunately the local Apple Store felt my pain and ended up giving me a
> brand new machine in its place. Kudos to Apple for that!
>
> Here's the odd thing, though: my old machine had an 80 gig drive and I had
> roughly 11-12 gigs of free space. The new machine has a 100 gig drive, and
> when I restored all of my stuff on to it from a backup, I expected to have
> roughly 30 gigs of free space...but...I have 9.5! That's *less* free space
> than I had on the older, smaller drive. Hmmm.
>
> I've run WhatSize and looked for some obvious clues, but nothing is
> standing
> out. Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Bill
>
>
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