Disk Space Problem with Win2k
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Name: Michael
Date: July 3, 2002 at 17:54:11 Pacific
Subject: Disk Space Problem with Win2k |
Comment: I have two hard drive, a IBM 40 GB (C:) and a Maxtor 60GB (D:). I've been having alot of problems with my hard drives ever since I upgraded to Win2000 Pro, Drives are NFTS.
I think it's not displaying the free space correctly. When I right click on my "D:" and "properties", it showed I only have 1.81GB Left, but when I select all the files/folders on the drive and go to "Properties", it says i'm only using 48.3GB. The true size of the hard drive is 55GB, so i'm losing about 4GB. Same with my C:. I've tried defragmenting both of my drives and check-errors with "Check Disk", but came up with nothing.
Any help with be appreciated, thanks in advance. :)
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Response Number 1
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Name: CJ
Date: July 3, 2002 at 19:12:32 Pacific
Subject: Disk Space Problem with Win2k |
Reply: (edit)go to
Start | Settings | Control Panel | Admin Tools | Computer Management | Storage | Disk Management
look in the bottom right panel and make sure the HDDs are formated to use the full amount of the disks.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Michael
Date: July 3, 2002 at 19:54:59 Pacific
Subject: Disk Space Problem with Win2k |
Reply: (edit)Nope everything is fine there, and here's another weird thing. Everytime i uninstall something it doesn't free up any space. Like recently i uninstalled a 1gb game, for some strange reason it didn't free up any space at all. Deleting stuff still works fine, just uninstalling stuff. I'm getting really mad now, everything was working fine until i upgraded to win2k. Should i convert my drives back to fat32?
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Response Number 3
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Name: Fred
Date: July 3, 2002 at 22:43:25 Pacific
Subject: Disk Space Problem with Win2k |
Reply: (edit)Win2K reports drives differently to some other OS's. Disconnect the secondary drive and check out the primary on its own first.
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Response Number 4
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Name: WIngzwin
Date: July 4, 2002 at 11:18:07 Pacific
Subject: Disk Space Problem with Win2k
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Reply: (edit)I had this same problem with a single 40gig hardrive it was detecting that i had 31 gigs but i knew i had 40. The problem i was facing was the jumper settings on the back of the HD. I tryed and made one HD a Master and the other a slave. On some HDs it give you the choice of 2 master selections. It sounds to me you choose the one that limits the space. When i was playing around with the settings on the back all of a sudden the bootup detected 40 gigs rather than 31.
if you figure out the settings and it works then next u need to Fdisk and reformat so that the OS will recdectect that u have that extra 4 gigs .
basically play around with the settings on the mast HD
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