Can you Help with new internal HD replacement please

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rae888

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Had a 128 GB Seagate sata hard drive on H's computer. Formatted it with 3 partitions. He kept running out of space then other issues. Make a long story short MS tech supposedly reformatted the hard drive and he did clean install of XP.

He keeps complaining about messages that he's running out of space and I just looked at it and its showing that its a 28 GB harddrive. So MS teck really screwed something up because I put in same hard drive as i have on my computer.

Figured easiest thing to do is get a 2nd internal hardrive - install windows 7 and move all his stuff or rather do fresh install of all his stuff on the new hardrive . Then he can reformat old one properly .

Question is will it make a difference what type of new harddrive we get ? And also is Seagate no longer best HD out there? I see on Amazon, WD is getting slightly better review. In the past, they were lousy HDs. Had two crash and burn years ago and have stayed away from them since.

Thanks for any help.
 
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I'd get a new HD (something larger than 128 GB) and use it as the primary drive on the new installation of Windows 7.

As for the type of HD, some people believe that Seagate is currently worse than WD and some data backs that up. A new study suggested that WD and Hitachi are at the top in terms of reliability. Sadly, any manufacturer can make a few bad units out of the thousands they manufacture so it's possible to get a bad one no matter the manufacturer. Get a HD with a decent warranty and a decent price.
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I'd get a new HD (something larger than 128 GB) and use it as the primary drive on the new installation of Windows 7.

As for the type of HD, some people believe that Seagate is currently worse than WD and some data backs that up. A new study suggested that WD and Hitachi are at the top in terms of reliability. Sadly, any manufacturer can make a few bad units out of the thousands they manufacture so it's possible to get a bad one no matter the manufacturer. Get a HD with a decent warranty and a decent price.
 
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Hi,

If you want a reliable Hd get a western digital "black" edition. These drive have a 5 years warranty and I got 8 year old 500 gb still running in perfect condition. Although they are a bit more expensive.

For windows xp, get at least a 50 gb partition, but then its better to make another partition just for programs.

E.G

partiton c: 50 GB
partition d: 100-200 depending on what is going to be installed in there
partiton e: data: rest of disk.

About the running out of space warning, it could be a virus since you still have some space left.

Download malware bytes / roguekiller and adwcleaner (from bleepingcomputer.com) to check that out.


 
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Thanks everyone. Well things may have changed since the 2 or 3 bad hard drives (WD) I had many years ago. My seagates I have now were installed 2004 & 2005 and still working well.
@dextermat - Thanks but I will NEVER partition a hard drive again. That's what started H's problems.
Never heard about Hitachi, so will check that out.
So model type not an issue with my original set up? I had sata hard drive and XP . Just need to be sure its sata so my stuff hooks up into it? Its been so long since I had to build a computer!
Oh - he has some good virus protection. I really think that when tek did the reformatting, he reformatted only one partition and now its showing it as a 28 GB hard drive with the rest just lost in space somewhere.
 
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WD website has this posted on there:

"WD Desktop Performance hard drives are tested and recommended for use in PCs and high-performance workstations.*

* Desktop drives are not recommended for use in RAID environments, please consider using WD Red hard drives for home and small office 1-5 bay NAS systems and WD Enterprise hard drives for rackmount and >5 bay NAS systems."

How do I know if I have a "RAID" environment??
 
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Whynot first see whats using the other ~100gb of space on the hdd H already has?
It might be that you just have to expand the partition into the unallocated space or at worst, delete the opther partitions first and then expand...

Being that this is XP you will need a 3rd party tool to do this
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you can just reinstall XP again but delete all the existing partitions first so that it will use the entire HDD.
 
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Would love to do that but don't know how. When we right click on C drive, it shows the 28 GB hard drive is about full. Its not showing partitions. Before when it was partitioned, they showed up as separate drives. And of course we don't won't to risk losing data.
 
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