XP reports used space on new WD HDD

[Guest]

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I just installed a new HDD.
2 problems appeared.
the first one was that when I moved
20-30 GB of data to one of three partitions I created, and then restarted
the computer, Scandisk would start and detect a lot of missing files and
crash before finished.
When windows finally started I would have lost 15-20 GB of data.

Second problem was that windows reported that the 3d partition had 17 GB of
used space.
(when I sceduled scandisk at next startup, everything seamed normal during
the scan before windows was fully loaded)


this is pretty fu**ed up right here...

I brought the whole computer to the store I bought it. They tested it and
found that everything was ok, but that they had reconfigured it a
bit(whatever that means)
When I got back home I found that windows reported approx.
14GB as used space.
I called the shop, demanded a new disk, got it and installed it...
....Same Problem all over again.

Started thinking of conntacting Customer support for windows and thought I
should make just one Partition(easier to check how much was missing)

BUT then everything was back to normal...
No Used space reported by windows.
I have double cheked whith 3 partitions, and the conclution is that the
problem only occures Whith TWO OR MORE partitions.(more used space with 2
partitions)


Don't know If I wil loose data now, don't have enough data to test properly...


Does anyone have ANY idea how to fix this. Much easier to organise data with
several partitions.
btw. I have tried both Windows partition program, and
WD-Lifeguard Tools with same result.


PLEASE HELP ;,-(

Olve

 

[Jerry]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

I have two each 120Gb drives with 4 partitions each so your 3 partiitons is
weird.

They are WD drives and I had to use their software to correctly set them up
when I first installed them. What did you use?

"Olve" <Olve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BD870438-B202-4C79-B565-93B9279D1230@microsoft.com...
>I just installed a new HDD.
> 2 problems appeared.
> the first one was that when I moved
> 20-30 GB of data to one of three partitions I created, and then restarted
> the computer, Scandisk would start and detect a lot of missing files and
> crash before finished.
> When windows finally started I would have lost 15-20 GB of data.
>
> Second problem was that windows reported that the 3d partition had 17 GB
> of
> used space.
> (when I sceduled scandisk at next startup, everything seamed normal during
> the scan before windows was fully loaded)
>
>
> this is pretty fu**ed up right here...
>
> I brought the whole computer to the store I bought it. They tested it and
> found that everything was ok, but that they had reconfigured it a
> bit(whatever that means)
> When I got back home I found that windows reported approx.
> 14GB as used space.
> I called the shop, demanded a new disk, got it and installed it...
> ...Same Problem all over again.
>
> Started thinking of conntacting Customer support for windows and thought I
> should make just one Partition(easier to check how much was missing)
>
> BUT then everything was back to normal...
> No Used space reported by windows.
> I have double cheked whith 3 partitions, and the conclution is that the
> problem only occures Whith TWO OR MORE partitions.(more used space with 2
> partitions)
>
>
> Don't know If I wil loose data now, don't have enough data to test
> properly...
>
>
> Does anyone have ANY idea how to fix this. Much easier to organise data
> with
> several partitions.
> btw. I have tried both Windows partition program, and
> WD-Lifeguard Tools with same result.
>
>
> PLEASE HELP ;,-(
>
> Olve