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XP Pro - HD displaying wrong size
Thanks to both of you. I did the check disk first nothing changed. Then I ran norton speed disk to defrag - nothing changed. Redid the check disk again rebooted and it was all good. At least if it happens again I'll know what to do(with Windows I'm sure it will).Now its correct 66G instead of...- tg2669
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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XP Pro - HD displaying wrong size
Installed a new 80G HD did a clean install of XP Pro everything is working great... EXCEPT several days ago my new 80G HD is saying that I only have 19.2G of free space which is not correct. Is this some glich in XP? I remember that 95 or 98 did something like this too. Does anyone know how to...- tg2669
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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Clean install of a new hard drive?
Thanks by the way. I have an upgrade XP cd (legit) from win ME... will that work. Where can I change the bios settings. I think a: is the default boot. Right?- tg2669
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Clean install of a new hard drive?
Installing a completely new hard drive. Currently running XP pro. Created a boot disk using the a\format create a ms dos book disk. Is this enough (all I need) to be able to boot up again after I install? And will it allow me to format and then access my cd rom drive to reinstall XP pro? Any...- tg2669
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
