I cant fully format a partiotion of my hard drive.

[super1manx]

I have Winxp pro, i have a 200g hd, its partitioned into 4 parts. on one of my partitions i have 80g but only 20 is available. Everythime i format, the results are the same i have 60g of harddrive that just wont erease. Its not the 127G limit, i know that much, its just that i have tried to recover that 60g before but now its all messt up. Anyone have any solution other then to Format the whole dirve?

 

[smah]

What status do you see in diskmgmt.msc for the partition in question?

What do you mean that 60Gb 'won't erase' - the format command completes normally, but there's still 60Gb worth of data?????

 

[super1manx]

What I mean is that before I had 60g of data, and error happned that all my data dissapeared, i tried to recover but was unsuccessfull. I dont care about the data becasue i have backups on DVDs. but yes the partitions is 80g but i only have acces to 20, even after formating. im pretty sure i can clean out all my hard drive my formatting it, the thing is i want to avoid that, that would be my last resort.

 

[smah]

So, when the format command is run on that partition, it completes normally without any errors?

What does disk managment show for that partition?

 

[super1manx]

when i run format it does itwith noerrors, the stats are these:its a basic partition, its healthy, capacity is 80g butonly 20g are available. when I view my hard drive i only see 2 files,system volumes information and recycler, they only take 85 bytes. SOim suretheres 60gb of info somewhere that i cant see or delete. help.

 

[super1manx]

when i run format it does it with no errors, the stats are these:its a basic partition, its healthy, capacity is 80g butonly 20g are available. when I view my hard drive i only see 2 files,system volumes information and recycler, they only take 85 bytes. SOim suretheres 60gb of info somewhere that i cant see or delete. help.

 

[wolluf]

In diskmgmt.msc, are the 4 partitions showing, with their full sizes? There's not an unpartitioned bit that's 60GB big? (60GB is also suspiciously close to what would be missing with the 128GB barrier, as a 200GB drive (drive manufacturer's definition) is actually c. 190GB in Windows)