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Help with HDD capacity reduction mystery
My daughters Compaq Win XP SP3 desk top PC would not boot up yesterday
and she has Acronis TI 11, so we used the Acronis bootup CD to start the PC. Our next effort was to run Acronis restore to copy the past full image backup of 112 GB stored on an external HDD. What was perplexing was the restore application showed that we were attempting to restore 112 GB from the external HDD to only 30 GB capacity on drive C of the internal destination HDD. When she last looked at her internal HDD in MY Computer it had revealed that there was 155 GB of total capacity and 123 used. Now when she looks at properties in My Computer she sees 30 GB of used HDD space and 5 unused? Would any one have thoughts on what would or could have caused the internal HDD to lose all that capacity? It apparently is not being used by any runaway application as she has looked at several different HDD usage freeware applications and there is nothing suspicious. Could malware eat the HDD or is this a sigh of a failing HDD? Mary |
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Help with HDD capacity reduction mystery
On 11/21/2011 01:38 PM, ECLiPSE 2002 wrote:
My daughters Compaq Win XP SP3 desk top PC would not boot up yesterday and she has Acronis TI 11, so we used the Acronis bootup CD to start the PC. Our next effort was to run Acronis restore to copy the past full image backup of 112 GB stored on an external HDD. What was perplexing was the restore application showed that we were attempting to restore 112 GB from the external HDD to only 30 GB capacity on drive C of the internal destination HDD. When she last looked at her internal HDD in MY Computer it had revealed that there was 155 GB of total capacity and 123 used. Now when she looks at properties in My Computer she sees 30 GB of used HDD space and 5 unused? Would any one have thoughts on what would or could have caused the internal HDD to lose all that capacity? It apparently is not being used by any runaway application as she has looked at several different HDD usage freeware applications and there is nothing suspicious. Could malware eat the HDD or is this a sigh of a failing HDD? Mary Have a look in the bios to see how the drive is recognized... normally "auto" is the best way to go... I wonder if the bios settingd got changed and it was set manually to 32gigs |
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Thanks for the response philo - she discovered what happened. Somehow during the restore process her drive C was partitioned in two drives - a C and a C secure. Inexplicably the restore process placed 80% of her C drive into the secure C drive.She was able to transfer it back to the normal C drive. Mary On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:49:26 -0600, philo wrote: On 11/21/2011 01:38 PM, ECLiPSE 2002 wrote: My daughters Compaq Win XP SP3 desk top PC would not boot up yesterday and she has Acronis TI 11, so we used the Acronis bootup CD to start the PC. Our next effort was to run Acronis restore to copy the past full image backup of 112 GB stored on an external HDD. What was perplexing was the restore application showed that we were attempting to restore 112 GB from the external HDD to only 30 GB capacity on drive C of the internal destination HDD. When she last looked at her internal HDD in MY Computer it had revealed that there was 155 GB of total capacity and 123 used. Now when she looks at properties in My Computer she sees 30 GB of used HDD space and 5 unused? Would any one have thoughts on what would or could have caused the internal HDD to lose all that capacity? It apparently is not being used by any runaway application as she has looked at several different HDD usage freeware applications and there is nothing suspicious. Could malware eat the HDD or is this a sigh of a failing HDD? Mary Have a look in the bios to see how the drive is recognized... normally "auto" is the best way to go... I wonder if the bios settingd got changed and it was set manually to 32gigs |
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Help with HDD capacity reduction mystery
On 11/22/2011 08:35 AM, ECLiPSE 2002 wrote:
Thanks for the response philo - she discovered what happened. Somehow during the restore process her drive C was partitioned in two drives - a C and a C secure. Inexplicably the restore process placed 80% of her C drive into the secure C drive.She was able to transfer it back to the normal C drive. Mary Glad you got it sorted out! |
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