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

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On Sep 10, 5:42 pm, 30GB Hard Drive shows up as 12.1GB - Ple <30GB
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Question
 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).

Have you checked in bios that the hd size is being correctly identified ?

i.e. ...and also check all other bios settings - in case the bios has
"bombed out" and dropped back to "failsafe" default settings.

....and have you run a  "check the disk for errors" ?

regards, Richard

Hi Richard,

Thanks for your speedy reply! Yes, BIOS shows it as a 30 GB HDD and all
settings are as they should be. Weird, isn't it?

Any other ideas?

Byl

Sounds like you might have a major problem on the drive. BIOS only
reads the drive's controller chips, for it's access specs. The boot
sector or MFT might be becoming un-reliable and you are possibly
having a failing drive.
.

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