HDD size error reporting. Only shows 1 Gb on 80 Gb drive.

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After upgrading to SP2, XP Prof. , system reports only 1
Gb space total on the drive, with 246 Mb available.... yet
when you use chkdsk or other tools, it still has about 76
Gb space left. I am unable to run chkdsk /f to repair
this. What can be done to repair this problem. Every
program I try to load now which has any size reports
back "insufficient space" to load the program. We have
tried thru the Repair Consloe already and had no luck in
FIXING the problem, but it DID report ERRORS FOUND when it
ran the check.

 

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Right click on My Computer, click Manage, click Disk Management. This
will show you the space of your hard drive and what partitions there are
on the drive. It is possible that your partition is only 1 GB in size
and the rest is unallocated (meaning it needs to be partitioned and
formatted). See what you can do from that console and post back if you
need more help

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Nathan McNulty

Lloyd Lamere wrote:
> After upgrading to SP2, XP Prof. , system reports only 1
> Gb space total on the drive, with 246 Mb available.... yet
> when you use chkdsk or other tools, it still has about 76
> Gb space left. I am unable to run chkdsk /f to repair
> this. What can be done to repair this problem. Every
> program I try to load now which has any size reports
> back "insufficient space" to load the program. We have
> tried thru the Repair Consloe already and had no luck in
> FIXING the problem, but it DID report ERRORS FOUND when it
> ran the check.
>