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December 28th, 2005, 12:50 AM
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Hello everyone,
I recently put a 200GB seagate harddrive in a computer as the primary, and only harddrive. After installing XP on the harddrive I noticed that it showed 192GB total, but it had 60GB as used. This is formatted in NTFS of course.
60GB is far from an XP install... So I went into: my computer > C:/ (the only partition) and highlighted everything including hidden folders and system protected files. It came to somthing like 5GB or less.
I've had the problem as the drive recognizing as 137GB before (easy fix with SP1), but never this.
I've tried reformatting but it didn't help. Does anyone have any ideas for me to try? | 
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December 28th, 2005, 01:11 AM
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Check out TreeSize, it might help reveal something. But that is indeed a very odd issue... can't say I've ever seen (or even read about) anything like that before  .
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December 28th, 2005, 01:46 AM
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December 28th, 2005, 05:25 PM
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Ripped, BEEE? lol
Thanks for the link, I'll download it and see if I can find anything out.
Anyone else have somthing to try? | |
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December 28th, 2005, 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by MoJoe Hello everyone,
I recently put a 200GB seagate harddrive in a computer as the primary, and only harddrive. After installing XP on the harddrive I noticed that it showed 192GB total, but it had 60GB as used. This is formatted in NTFS of course.
60GB is far from an XP install... So I went into: my computer > C:/ (the only partition) and highlighted everything including hidden folders and system protected files. It came to somthing like 5GB or less.
I've had the problem as the drive recognizing as 137GB before (easy fix with SP1), but never this.
I've tried reformatting but it didn't help. Does anyone have any ideas for me to try? | I suggest that you run an error check on the drive see if that doent help figure out what is going on.
JUST choose the Tools tab, then Error checking: Check now; then Automatically Fix (don't check the other box). Then OK. It will complain that it cannot do it now, and do you want to schedule it; say OK. Then close all this stuff and reboot the system. Checkdisk will run during the bootup, takes a while. After Windows comes up, go back into Properties again and inspect the chart.
I hope that will fix it.
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December 28th, 2005, 05:38 PM
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Could it be your Motherboard cannot support anything over 140ish GB? | |
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