[Error] Hard drive displaying incorrect capacity!?

[leedolman]

Hi,

I created a partition on my Western Digital external hard drive a while ago using Acronis Partition Expert. I've just deleted this partition and increased the free space back to the original 150GB of the drive. I now have this information when I select Properties for the drive....

I just deleted 80GB of files from the drive and it's now telling me I have 221GB of free space when the drive is only 150GB!!!

Anybody shed some light on how to resolve this?

Short of reformatting the drive

Cheers

Lee

Edited April 26, 2006 by leedolman

[snafumaster]

If your attempt was to clear the drive out, there can't be any harm in wiping the drive clean. Delete all partitions and reformat the drive. You should be able to do this in windows disk manager.

[HyperHacker]

Given that you have ")(/->00'.(0" bytes available, which is about 800 million of no unit, I'd say some system file is corrupt.

[naughty]

i think its just becuase of corrupted MBR. if u dont have any pricious data on ur hdd then just do the formatting.ur poblum will be solved.

[LLXX]

Looks like a corrupted free space count. CHKDSK should be able to fix it.

The reason why it's displaying the strange non-number of used space is probably because it subtracts capacity from free space, and the unsigned 64-bit integer used to hold it wrapped around to a huge positive value.

Also, why is the text multicolored (I see pink brown and blue)? Video RAM problems?

[Sonic]

Yes I confirm

chkdsk c: /r

will fix this bug.

[leedolman]

Thanks for the advice guys

I already moved all the data I needed to my C: and formatted the drive though

As for the multicoloured writing.... it's just the compression i used on the jpeg is all

Thanks

Lee