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200gb WD issue

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Boypdp

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I have a 200GB WD 8mb cache drive. Windows is displaying it as a 186gb drive like it should.

The issue I am having is that I seem to be missing 60gb of space.

This is what the issure looks like...

That 126gb is with alllll the folders selected, and there are none hidden or anything. So why do I only have 1.36gb left?
 
I loaded up Western Digital Data Lifeguard toolset, and at the start it told me that drives above 137gb were not fully supported on my system and that i need to restart to fix this.

So now i am assuming i have to reformat my drive to get the full use out of it?
 
I understand that my 200gb drive will only have a capacity of 186gb for use...my problem is windows says I have 186gb but there is only 1.36gb left when doing properties on all the folders only yeilds 126gb of data...and tehre are no hidden files.
 
Originally posted by Boypdp
I understand that my 200gb drive will only have a capacity of 186gb for use...my problem is windows says I have 186gb but there is only 1.36gb left when doing properties on all the folders only yeilds 126gb of data...and tehre are no hidden files.
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When you say you have no hidden files, does that mean you checked the box to display hidden files? There is another option to display protected operating system files as well.

Also have you run chkdsk on that drive lately? Some entries may be reporting disk space wrong and need to be corrected.
 
You ned to have 48-bit addressing to access the space on that hard drive. I have to use a separate PCI IDE controller card to use my 200GB drive. How is your drive connected to your motherboard? Does your motherboard natively support 48 bit addressing?
 
So I ran CHKDSK on the drive and pasted the results into the original screen shot.

Screen

Seems that there is 60gb of data in bad sectors?!!?

Dont know how that could happen, maybe i just need to reformat it.

I tried to check if my mobo supporst 48-bit addressing but EPOX's website is down, i have the EPOX 8RDA+ mobo.
 
Since chkdsk is showing that many bad sectors, I would backup any important files immediately. The drive is apparently going downhill fast......

Then use Western Digitals Diagnostic tools to perform a full read/write check. Call WD and see if you can RMA the drive if you've still got a warrenty on it.
 
Alright, WD wont RMA my drive cause apparantely its a Far East drive, aka not made in the US. Thanks newegg!

Anyways, I found somewhere to dump all the data to and am just gonna do a format since my windows now will support larger than 137gb drives. Hoping that those really arent bad sectors, just sectors that chkdsk didnt know what to do with cause they haevn't been touched before.
 
Where the drive is made doesn't matter - nobody really makes them in the US anymore. However, where the drive is marked for sale does. It's not uncommon to charge different prices for other localities, but manufacturers have to change something on the product to get away with doing that (otherwise it's price discrimination). Sometimes it may just be a bios code, sometimes a missing feature. Anyway, if the drive ends up where it's not supposed to they'll consider it gray market and unsupported. Of course this is completely aside from whether the drive was sold with a warranty or not.

Secondly, don't trust your vendor to get things right. I'm actually in a dispute right now with hypermicro over a drive purchased a few years ago. It came with a one year vendor warranty, when I specifically asked for one with a 5 year manufacturer warranty. Unfortunately I destroyed the copy of their page showing what the price difference was; I know what I paid for it via the credit card company, but I have no way of confirming whether that's the price for the 5 year drive or not aside from asking HM to pull a 2 year old webpage off their own site archives.
 
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