Large Size Drive Contents not Showing in My Computer/Windows Explorer

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Julie

I have a 400G hard drive partitioned - 156G and 215G. It is seen by disk
management as healthy. However, in My Computer and Windows Explorer, it
shows as 0 bytes used and 0 bytes free. I cannot access it in either program
and I get an access denied message.
I have large block access enabled in my registry.
I have run chkdsk with no problems found.
Here's the kicker. This is a dual boot system. In Windows XP, the drive
shows up fine, and I can access it.
I don't want to format it as it has a lot of data stored on it.
How can I fix this?

Julie
(Email address is bogus - don't reply to the email address.)
 
Was this drive ever shown correctly in win2k?
Was it origonally partitioned useing win tools or a third party utility?
 
What does disk management show for size and used? Have you taken ownership?



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DL said:
Was this drive ever shown correctly in win2k?
Yes

Was it origonally partitioned useing win tools or a third party utility?
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Partitioned using disk management in winxp.
 
Dave Patrick said:
What does disk management show for size and used? Have you taken ownership?
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Disk Management showed 156G.
I took ownership and it appears correctly now. I can access it and it shows
156G.

I never knew one could take ownership of an entire hard drive, but it
certainly solved my problem.

Thanks.
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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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Julie said:
I have a 400G hard drive partitioned - 156G and 215G. It is seen by disk
management as healthy. However, in My Computer and Windows Explorer, it
shows as 0 bytes used and 0 bytes free. I cannot access it in either
program
and I get an access denied message.
I have large block access enabled in my registry.
I have run chkdsk with no problems found.
Here's the kicker. This is a dual boot system. In Windows XP, the drive
shows up fine, and I can access it.
I don't want to format it as it has a lot of data stored on it.
How can I fix this?

Julie
(Email address is bogus - don't reply to the email address.)
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