leedolman Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 (edited) 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 driveCheersLee Edited April 26, 2006 by leedolman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snafumaster Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyperHacker Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 Given that you have ")(/->00'.(0" bytes available, which is about 800 million of no unit, I'd say some system file is corrupt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naughty Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 Yes I confirm chkdsk c: /r will fix this bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedolman Posted April 27, 2006 Author Share Posted April 27, 2006 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 ThanksLee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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