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From: SlapStick77 on 22 Jun 2010 01:38

Hi, I have a* 2.8 GHz P4 intel processor* with an *ASUS p5rd1-vm* mother
board and an *ATI radeon (128Mb) *Graphics Card with *768 Mb of RAM*. I
recently put in a new hard disk and everything was running fine while I
was using XP. I tried to install 7, but it did not work, so I decided to
revert back to XP. After installation everything seemed fine till I
checked on my hard drives. Drive H which should have a capacity of 85GB,
shows only 720kb in size when it's properties are checked. All the other
partitions seem to be working just fine. Also, when you click on the
drive, It asks you whether you want to format the drive. If you say Yes,
then another pop up appears "This Drive cannot be formatted". Any ideas?
Please HELP


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From: Harry on 22 Jun 2010 14:10
On Jun 21, 10:38 pm, SlapStick77 <SlapStick77.4cy...(a)DoNotSpam.com>
wrote:
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> Drive H which should have a capacity of 85GB,
> shows only 720kb in size when it's properties are checked.
[...]

Is H a drive, or a partition?
720kb -- total size, or free space ?

If H is a drive, take it offline and plug it to another PC to see
how it looks.

Can you access files on H: ?
If so, copy them to somewhere when you still can.

If H: is a partition, use some partition manager to check
if there are other hidden partition(s) that could account for
missing disk space.

Google "free partition manager".
From: adrwow on 23 Jun 2010 04:09

feels like something went wrong during partitioning. maybe u entered
wrong figure when creating the partition? Or using an outer "Extended
Partition" can sometimes restrict the logical partitions inside.
Extended partitions are shown in GREEN at Window's Computer Management >
Disk Management

to confirm if there are no damages to the hard disks, try these free
programs i use. check the hard disk SMART status

aeo3 hard disk smart viewer
http://aeo3.com/apps/hdsmart/index.html

or

or speedfan
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php


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