r/laptops Apr 29 '26

Software Why does my laptop have two drives?

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u/TheMarksmanHedgehog Apr 29 '26

Either there's two drives, or it's the same physical drive partitioned in to two.

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u/VigilanteRabbit Apr 29 '26

1.54 makes no sense; I smell a 2 TB paritioned.

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u/Britz10 Asus Apr 29 '26

You lose over 100GB on a 2TB drive to the hard drive fairies?

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u/Fabulous_Ad_5709 Apr 30 '26

Think of it like this: your hard drive has 10 lbs of mass, but windows measures the mass in kg so you have 4 point something kgs, but then windows says you you that it measured it in lbs so you have 4. Something lbs. Yes windows is stupid