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xp disk capacity problem
I'm running XP w/ AutoCad and a few misc. utilites such as NOD 32 and Outpost. My HDrive is 150 GB. This morning I booted my PC and checked My Computer>Properties. The info I got was as follows: Used: 9.3 GB Free: 940 MB Capacity: 9.29 GB When I run XP defragment it shows that th drivew is filled up w/ something. But after running Outpost and NOD32 for spyware/viruses they show that I'm clean. When I check my HD in Disk Management it shows that my HD has about 148 GB capacity and 200 MB "GPT Protective Partition". Any ideas on how to make this right?
GioAguilar
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Posted August 18th, 2007 03:00
Did you installed XP on this computer deleting partitions??? as GreyMack said looks like if you're using a 10Gb partition, go to My Computer and right click on the HDD go to properties, and tell us the space available and used reported there...GioAguilar
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Posted August 18th, 2007 16:00
So you have installed on a 10Gb partition, you may need to resintall Windows back and delete all the partitions and create a single one with all the amount available, to get all your HDD capacity.- No, disk management says that I have a 150 GB Drive w/ a 200 MB partition GPT Protected Partition. I originally installed on a 150 GB Drive w/ no partitions. I used the computer for a month w/ no problems in the above configuration. Only as of Friday morning did this disk capacity problem occur. I've run utilities for virus's and spyware and come up clean on both.
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Posted August 19th, 2007 00:00
Yes, Disk Management will tell you you have a 150 GB HDD, but not that you are using all that space... If you say on the HDD properties says the HDD is 9.29 it is because the partition it is 9.29I do not think it is a virus spyware... I would say to boot to the XP CD (like if you will install XP) and on the section to format, check the partitions, to see if you see "Unalocated Space" there or if you see a partition of 9.29 and any other partition whit the format they may have (FAT32, FAT, NTFS)GioAguilar
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Posted August 19th, 2007 13:00
Forgot to ask to identify the C drive, but it will be imposible to be the partition 1 as the C, so the partition will be the C:This is turning every moment worst...I was thinking on a Vista problem posted a while back, but it may apply, where the System restore files takes some of the HDD space to allocate the filesCheck this post- Which version of Windows are you using?
"GPT disks are supported only by Windows XP 64-Bit Edition. You cannot move GPT disks to computers running the 32-bit versions of Windows XP.
From Disk Management on computers running a 32-bit version of Windows XP, GPT disks appear as basic MBR disks with a single partition covering the whole disk, but the data on the partition cannot be accessed."
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/guid_partition_table.mspx?mfr=true
"The Protective MBR protects GPT disks from previously released MBR disk tools such as Microsoft MS-DOS FDISK or Microsoft Windows NT Disk Administrator. These tools are not aware of GPT and do not know how to properly access a GPT disk. Legacy software that does not know about GPT interprets only the Protected MBR when it accesses a GPT disk. These tools will view a GPT disk as having a single encompassing (possibly unrecognized) partition by interpreting the Protected MBR, rather than mistaking the disk for one that is unpartitioned."
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT_FAQ.mspx
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Posted August 17th, 2007 22:00
Who set up your system? The name of the product line and the model number may provide some clues for others to assist.
I'm relatively clueless, but the GUID Partition Table (GPT) is evidently a Microsoft initiative to replace the standard MBR.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT_FAQ.mspx
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