Re: Reinstalled XP, Files on second hard drive not read
- From: "Anna" <myname@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:14:36 -0500
Steph K wrote:
I have a second 300gb Seagate SATA hard drive (G:) that I have been
successfully using. However, recently I had to reinstall XP
professional and
now Windows only shows that the G: drive has 128 gb and all the files
are
gone. I already reinstalled the Service Pack 2 to solve the hard drive
capacity limit issue. When I open the Computer Management folder G:
shows up
under "Disk 1" as 279.46 gb, but at the top it shows up as 128 gb.
It seems that maybe Windows is not reading the other half of the HD
where my
files have previously been. OR...that my files have been deleted
somehow and
I'd need to reformat the HD again. I hope do it isn't the later.
Does anyone have a sollution to this issue? Any help is greatly
appreciated.
Thank you very much!
"Pat Coghlan" wrote:
The physical *drive* may be 300G, but it is the *partitions* that are
usable.
The MBR (master boot record) contains the information on the number of
partitions etc. on the physical drive. A physical drive can have up to
4 primary partitions. As long as this didn't get changed somehow, your
files should all still be there.
Out of curiosity, where does Disk Management indicate your system is
(C:, presumably)?
"Steph K" <StephK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:DDBEDE69-3B93-4F86-B421-12AA3C0515E2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for the reply.
I didn't partition the drive before I reinstalled XP and was using the
entire "~300gb" as my second HD. Unless Windows had automatically
partitioned
my drive because of its capacity limitations, I don't know how I ended up
with 128 gb shown. I thought it might be an HD issue until I spoke with
Seagate tech support and he said that because the Computer Managment
folder
shows "Disk 1" with 279.46 gb and it only gave me 128gb, something might
be
wrong with Windows.
So I guess my concern is trying to access the other partition (if my files
are indeed still on there). I just don't know how to do it. Any ideas?
And yes, it indicates and I reinstalled on the C:/
Steph K.
Just to get a clear picture of your present configuration...
You say Disk Managment (the utility accessed through Computer Management)
apparently correctly indicates the total capacity of your 300 GB HDD -
actually approximately 279 GB. Then you say "but at the top (in Disk
Management) it shows up as 128 gb". And later you state along the same lines
that "it (again, Disk Management) only gave me 128gb".
So there's a bit of a conflict here, isn't there? Is it possible that the
128 GB you're referring to is shown under "Free Space"? If not, where
precisely is this 128 GB figure shown?
When you access your G: drive - the 300 GB Seagate, does it appear to you
that there is considerable data missing from that drive?
And you haven't multi-partitioned that 300 GB Seagate, have you?
I assume your system/boot drive is C:. What are the other devices that have
the D:, E:, & F: drive letter designations?
Anna
.
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