Computer Help

[pb8907]

My old hard drive crapped out , so I got a new 40GB Hard Drive installed and stuff at the local computer place, but now i keep getting "Critically low disk space" warnings(one time it said I had 41 mb left:yikes: ) so I checked to see if i could see how much space there actually was total on the hard drive and i see this:

Any one know whats wrong and how i can fix it?

[The Undead]

they sold you a 10gig! take it back and tear the bastards head off!!!

[El Pirata]

That's got my vote, it's not a 40gb hard drive.

[pb8907]

I took the hard drive out and it actually says on the drive that is a 40 Gig

[Airmack]

Format it as an NTFS hard drive. FAT32 is the wrong format... Right click on the drive and do a quick NTFS format.

[TheImp]

Hmm go over to where you bought it. Then calmly hand the harddrive to the clerk that sold you the 10 gig one. Smile and ask him to give you a real 40gig harddrive. If there is no effort being made to get your real 40 gig harddrive. If not...then stab him in nads.

[Airmack]

Wow, nevermind. If it says its a 40 GB HDD than it is. It has to be formatted correctly.

[The Undead]

it is the settings in your bios. What size was the previous harddrive?

go into your bios and choose : default settings.


if that does not work. It is probably a setting restricting the size, i have a vague memory of something like that.

[pb8907]

it is the settings in your bios. What size was the previous harddrive?

go into your bios and choose : default settings.


if that does not work. It is probably a setting restricting the size, i have a vague memory of something like that.
the old hd was 40gig also
ill try that in a minute

[Airmack]

Did you try formating it? FAT32 is not a Windows XP suppoted format.

[pb8907]

doesent formatting it erase all of my stuff on my hard drive?

[pb8907]

I converted it to NTFS but it is still the same

How do I get to the BIOS settings?

[pb8907]

the bios settings is what you get when you press f8 or one of the f keys on start up right?

If it is I went to set defaults and exit, but still no better:notsure:

[El Pirata]

I still vote for the fact you got a 10gb hard drive. It is possible that for whatever error it got mislabeled at the factory and thus mispackaged. Take it back for another.

[The Undead]

um... FAT32 *is* supported by XP, but the FAT32 format doenst support large .ie. 80 or so gig up. NTFS is NOT supported by previous OS's.

BIOS - no it isnt what you get when you press F8.
After POST (Power on Self Test - the beep) press DEL (setup) until a blue screen comes up... DO NOT GO SCREWING AROUND

[Airmack]

W/E... I haven't messed with computers in a while. If it is a pre-built PC I highly doubt there is any functionality in the BIOS that will mess something up. If worse comes to worse you can just set it to defaults.

[pb8907]

just did the BIOS settings and that didnt work either:confused:

[Airmack]

Open up the command console and chkdsk?