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Olve
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Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:11 am Post subject:
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I just installed a new HDD.
2 problems appeared.
the first one was that when I moved
20-30 GB of data to one of three partitions I created, and then restarted
the computer, Scandisk would start and detect a lot of missing files and
crash before finished.
When windows finally started I would have lost 15-20 GB of data.
Second problem was that windows reported that the 3d partition had 17 GB of
used space.
(when I sceduled scandisk at next startup, everything seamed normal during
the scan before windows was fully loaded)
this is pretty fu**ed up right here...
I brought the whole computer to the store I bought it. They tested it and
found that everything was ok, but that they had reconfigured it a
bit(whatever that means)
When I got back home I found that windows reported approx.
14GB as used space.
I called the shop, demanded a new disk, got it and installed it...
....Same Problem all over again.
Started thinking of conntacting Customer support for windows and thought I
should make just one Partition(easier to check how much was missing)
BUT then everything was back to normal...
No Used space reported by windows.
I have double cheked whith 3 partitions, and the conclution is that the
problem only occures Whith TWO OR MORE partitions.(more used space with 2
partitions)
Don't know If I wil loose data now, don't have enough data to test properly...
Does anyone have ANY idea how to fix this. Much easier to organise data with
several partitions.
btw. I have tried both Windows partition program, and
WD-Lifeguard Tools with same result.
PLEASE HELP ;,-(
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jeffrey
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Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:25 am Post subject:
Re: XP reports used space on new WD HDD |
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Hi,
Don`t know what is causing your problem, but its not a common one. I have 3
HDD in my computer, primary HD is 200 GB, primary slave 160GB, secondary
primary 100 GB. The Primary HD has 3 partitions, the Primary slave also has
3 partitions and the secondary primary has 2 partition. I have no loss of
data or space on any of the drives. Seems like something is screwy with you
XP installation or the disk management program. Not sure how you should
procede to ensure your XP is running properly. You might want to see if a
xp repair might do the trick or the command sfc /scannow but not sure if it
will work.
Jeff
"Olve" <Olve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BD870438-B202-4C79-B565-93B9279D1230@microsoft.com...
| Quote: | I just installed a new HDD.
2 problems appeared.
the first one was that when I moved
20-30 GB of data to one of three partitions I created, and then restarted
the computer, Scandisk would start and detect a lot of missing files and
crash before finished.
When windows finally started I would have lost 15-20 GB of data.
Second problem was that windows reported that the 3d partition had 17 GB
of
used space.
(when I sceduled scandisk at next startup, everything seamed normal during
the scan before windows was fully loaded)
this is pretty fu**ed up right here...
I brought the whole computer to the store I bought it. They tested it and
found that everything was ok, but that they had reconfigured it a
bit(whatever that means)
When I got back home I found that windows reported approx.
14GB as used space.
I called the shop, demanded a new disk, got it and installed it...
...Same Problem all over again.
Started thinking of conntacting Customer support for windows and thought I
should make just one Partition(easier to check how much was missing)
BUT then everything was back to normal...
No Used space reported by windows.
I have double cheked whith 3 partitions, and the conclution is that the
problem only occures Whith TWO OR MORE partitions.(more used space with 2
partitions)
Don't know If I wil loose data now, don't have enough data to test
properly...
Does anyone have ANY idea how to fix this. Much easier to organise data
with
several partitions.
btw. I have tried both Windows partition program, and
WD-Lifeguard Tools with same result.
PLEASE HELP ;,-(
Olve |
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Jerry
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Fri Dec 24, 2004 11:09 am Post subject:
Re: XP reports used space on new WD HDD |
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I have two each 120Gb drives with 4 partitions each so your 3 partiitons is
weird.
They are WD drives and I had to use their software to correctly set them up
when I first installed them. What did you use?
"Olve" <Olve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BD870438-B202-4C79-B565-93B9279D1230@microsoft.com...
| Quote: | I just installed a new HDD.
2 problems appeared.
the first one was that when I moved
20-30 GB of data to one of three partitions I created, and then restarted
the computer, Scandisk would start and detect a lot of missing files and
crash before finished.
When windows finally started I would have lost 15-20 GB of data.
Second problem was that windows reported that the 3d partition had 17 GB
of
used space.
(when I sceduled scandisk at next startup, everything seamed normal during
the scan before windows was fully loaded)
this is pretty fu**ed up right here...
I brought the whole computer to the store I bought it. They tested it and
found that everything was ok, but that they had reconfigured it a
bit(whatever that means)
When I got back home I found that windows reported approx.
14GB as used space.
I called the shop, demanded a new disk, got it and installed it...
...Same Problem all over again.
Started thinking of conntacting Customer support for windows and thought I
should make just one Partition(easier to check how much was missing)
BUT then everything was back to normal...
No Used space reported by windows.
I have double cheked whith 3 partitions, and the conclution is that the
problem only occures Whith TWO OR MORE partitions.(more used space with 2
partitions)
Don't know If I wil loose data now, don't have enough data to test
properly...
Does anyone have ANY idea how to fix this. Much easier to organise data
with
several partitions.
btw. I have tried both Windows partition program, and
WD-Lifeguard Tools with same result.
PLEASE HELP ;,-(
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