User's Manual

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Recovery Solution Representation (Optional)
Q. What is a Recovery Area?
A . - Samsung computers have an additional par tition to rec over computers or save
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ThispartitioniscalledaRecoveryAreaanditincludesarecoveryimagethat
comprisesoftheOSandapplicationprograms.
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orpressF4whilebootingthecomputertoentertheRecoveryArea.Thenyou
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images.
-FordeletingtheRecoveryArea,youneedtouseanadditionalRecoveryArea
RemovalTool.Afterdeletingtherecoveryarea,youcanusethenewlycreated
partitionforotheruses,suchasforsavingpersonaldata.Becarefulthatoncethe
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Q. The capacity representation of the hard disk drive(HDD) in Windows is
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A . - The c apacit y of the storage device (HD D) of the manufacturer is c alculated
assuming that 1KB=1,000 Bytes. However, the operating system (Windows)
calculatesthestoragedevicecapacityassumingthat1KB=1,024 Bytes,and
therefore the capacity representation of the HDD in Windows is smaller than the
actualcapacity.Thisisduetothedifferenceincapacitycalculationanddoesnot
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- The capacity representation in Windows may be smaller than the actual capacity
becausesomeprogramsoccupyacertainareaoftheHDDoutsideofWindows.
- For models with Samsung Recovery Solution, the HDD capacity representation
inWindowsmaybesmallerthantheactualcapacitybecauseSamsungRecovery
Solution uses a hidden area of about 5~20GB of the HDD to save the recovery
image,andthathiddenareaisnotcountedtowardsthetotalsizeavailableto
Windows.ThesizeofSamsungRecoverySolutionvariesbymodelsbecauseofthe
different size of applied programs.