Re: Why my 500gb hard drive showing only 127gb

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Slipstream has allways worked for me, on various systems

"Twayne" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Careful with this advice; beware slipstreams.

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 00:05:01 -0700, mia vai
<miavai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi few days ago my computer got virus and crash.


What virus?


Although I have Norton anti
virus software install in my computer.


Norton is the *worst* anti-virus product available. You were *not*
adequately protected.

Completely untrue.



Anyway I fixed it by clean hard drive
and reinstall windows xp os.


That is almost always a very poor way to proceed if you have a virus.
Viruses can usually be removed if you do it properly with good
software.

It's often faster to do a clean install of windows than to spend excessive
time chasing down malware, especially for an as yet inexperienced person
in those areas. What might really be missing here is a good backup
strategy.



My computer has 2 hard drive primary 80gb and
slave drive is 500gb. Problem is when I open my computer property
there is 3 hard drive, drive C, drive D, and drive E.


If you ended up with more partitions than you wanted, you did the
installation improperly. Exactly how did you do it? Please describe
the steps completely.

Most likely.



I assume E is the slave drive,
which suppose to be 500gb now it's showing only 127 GB.


You probably installed with an old copy of Windows XP. If you don't
install with at least SP1, a drive that large won't be supported. You
need to slipstream a service pack--preferably the latest one,
SP3--onto a CD and redo the installation.

Probably. But slipstreams are catastrophic failures for many new to the
process since they have no way of testing them without risking their
drives again and spending much more time. A proper back up strategy
nicely sidesteps that whole thing.



I don't know what
went wrong. Somebody please help me to fix that problem. Thank you.





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