status. Drives were installed in Jan, Compaq with winME. one drive system, other drive for backing up with Duocor Xactcopy.
Drives were seen full size and working fine in Jan. Lady called and said she was getting out of space messages. Bios sees the drives full size, WD Diagnostics see the drive full size and check out OK. Windows sees 5899 gig. ( yesterday I sware it was seeing more) I worked on it today and have NO CLUE WTF. Somehow someone had uninstalled Xactcopy. I suspect fowl play. I am going to bring the system back to the shop and ghost it to another drive and see if I can get it back. I put the backup sw back in so she at least has a backup. FWIW fdisk sees both drives exactly the same size ( run from windows) May be some weird windows bug also or maybe a controller MB problem. Have not seen this B4 have not pulled the drives to check jumpers BUT they were fine in Jan and I doubt anyone has pulled them and fiddled with jumpers. Customer claims no one has worked on this system but I wonder. thanks fp At 11:03 AM 12/22/2006, Rick Glazier\(Gmail\) Poked the stick with: >Is this the size you "always saw", or did they suddenly shrink? > >Did you "ever" see them the proper formatted size? (and) > >Where have you looked at them, and were they moved? > >In certain "vintage" systems they might only show up as 8.4G >(or so) and/or 32G (or so...) > >Are any cylinder limitation jumpers set? > >Sounds like a BIOS limitation to me... > > Rick Glazier > >From: "FORC5" >>Have two wd 40gb drives only showing 9 gb ( fat 32 ) drives were installed in >>January. fdisk only shows 9gb ( aprox) >>looking for clues on something to check these with. Tomorrow will run the wd >>sw on them -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Those who trade liberty for security have neither
