30GB Hard Drive shows up as 12.1GB - Please Help!!

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Byl''s HDD Blues

I have a 30 GB HDD (Seagate) in an Athlon XP 2200+ running WXP Pro with 1.25
GB of RAM.

All is well with the system except yesterday when I got a notice saying that
I was running out of disk space (I've only got 10.8 GB on the drive).

I went to "My Computer" and the HDD shows up as being only 12.1 GB. I then
right clicked the HDD icon and the properties graphically showed the same
thing -- only 1.2 GB of space left!

I checked Disk Management and graphically (on the lower pane) it shows the
drive to be 27.95 GB, (which is more in line with a 30GB HDD). It shows the
partition is NTFS and "Healthy" with no unallocated space.

However, on the upper pane, it details the HDD as 12.2 GB with only 1.2 GB
of space left on it ?!?!?

Going to the device manager and then the properties of the HDD shows the
capacity as 28,616 MB (28 or so GB) but in the lower part of the display, it
states the drive is 12,488 MB (about 12GB or so).

I downloaded and installed HD Tune 2.55 and it tested the ST330620A Drive as
28,615 MB (~30GB) but a 98.61% usage (again, I only have 10.8 GB on the
drive). All the tests performed by HD Tune show no errors or problems with
the drive.

Can anyone please shed some light on this and how to get WXP Pro to show the
correct HDD Size?

This install is otherwise very stable and satisfactory.

I had installed SP-3 on it 2 or 3 weeks ago and I speculated that maybe
that had caused the issue as I had not noticed it before. I uninstalled SP-3,
but it did not correct this issue. All is otherwise fine with the machine.
Please help!!
 
Byl''s HDD Blues said:
I have a 30 GB HDD (Seagate) in an Athlon XP 2200+ running WXP Pro with
1.25
GB of RAM.

All is well with the system except yesterday when I got a notice saying
that
I was running out of disk space (I've only got 10.8 GB on the drive).

I went to "My Computer" and the HDD shows up as being only 12.1 GB. I then
right clicked the HDD icon and the properties graphically showed the same
thing -- only 1.2 GB of space left!

I checked Disk Management and graphically (on the lower pane) it shows the
drive to be 27.95 GB, (which is more in line with a 30GB HDD). It shows
the
partition is NTFS and "Healthy" with no unallocated space.

However, on the upper pane, it details the HDD as 12.2 GB with only 1.2 GB
of space left on it ?!?!?

Going to the device manager and then the properties of the HDD shows the
capacity as 28,616 MB (28 or so GB) but in the lower part of the display,
it
states the drive is 12,488 MB (about 12GB or so).

I downloaded and installed HD Tune 2.55 and it tested the ST330620A Drive
as
28,615 MB (~30GB) but a 98.61% usage (again, I only have 10.8 GB on the
drive). All the tests performed by HD Tune show no errors or problems with
the drive.

Can anyone please shed some light on this and how to get WXP Pro to show
the
correct HDD Size?

This install is otherwise very stable and satisfactory.

I had installed SP-3 on it 2 or 3 weeks ago and I speculated that maybe
that had caused the issue as I had not noticed it before. I uninstalled
SP-3,
but it did not correct this issue. All is otherwise fine with the machine.
Please help!!
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Please be patient. Asking again will not help. No one here works for MS.
Everyone is a volunteer and has a life of their own. When someone that knows
the answer to your question sees it, they will reply.
 
Bruce Hagen said:
Please be patient. Asking again will not help. No one here works for MS.
Everyone is a volunteer and has a life of their own. When someone that knows
the answer to your question sees it, they will reply.
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I don't understand your comment. I posted this once to "Help and Support"
and also to "General". Is that not acceptable? Anyway, I am patient and I
appreciate anyone who takes the time to respond. I know none of us work for
MS and I hope someone can help me with this (as I have helped other wit
issues I've been familiar with).
 
Byl''s HDD Blues said:
I don't understand your comment. I posted this once to "Help and Support"
and also to "General". Is that not acceptable? Anyway, I am patient and I
appreciate anyone who takes the time to respond. I know none of us work
for
MS and I hope someone can help me with this (as I have helped other wit
issues I've been familiar with).
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There is another post here, 28 minutes prior to this one. I see you have
received an answer in XP General. That said, if you want to send identical
messages to more than one newsgroup, please crosspost one message to all the
groups. This way if a post is replied to in one group, it will also be
replied to in the other group(s) as well. Thank you.

Multiposting vs Crossposting:
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

Perhaps you would find using Outlook Express as your newsreader instead of
the clunky Web interface a better option. It is much easier to keep track of
your posts.

Setting up Outlook Express Newsreader for MShttp://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
 
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