The memory sounds fine. It's never the full amount because of various
factors--system setup, reserved for video etc. And you hard drive is probably
fine, too. You are most likely looking at the recovery partition & utility
partition. All the rest is the huge drive that's usable. Go to Administrative
Tools on the start menu, computer management, disk management and you will
see a graphic of all the drive.

"Jennifer" wrote:
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> I just bought a new HPPavillion Vista Media Center computer which should have
> 2048 mb ddr2 ram and a 400 gb hard drive. When I look in the system
> properties it shows 1918 mb ram and when I open the computer file it shows
> 1.87 gb memory. Shouldn't these be the same? And the other issue I have is it
> shows HP(C:) with 22.3 gb free of 50 gb and Recovery (D:) 927 mb free of 6.25
> gb. Where is the remaining 343.75 gb??? I called the HP help desk and he told
> me do a system restore and this would fix it, which it didn't. He said the
> computer is using the space for memory and to run programs. This is my first
> new computer so will you please help.[/color]