makmillion

I've been having some strange issues with Vista, and I'm not sure what to do about them, as 'repair console' hasn't fixed them and a fresh 'recovery' didn't do anything.

Issues;

1.) I turned my computer completely off last night, when I turned it on this morning it installed a driver for an already installed and formatted 160GB HDD.. it showed the drive as 136GB (it has 109 left, it's got a lot on it) and it showed the drive as unallocated space.. I rebooted the PC, the drive appears as 109GB left and as NTFS

2.) Randomly my internet cuts out, this is partly because of my ISP (comcast) and their crappy wiring jobs.. however, my other PC (XP Home SP2) which runs through my PC on Windows ICS connects fine, while mine I go to any given site and get a 'Site Not Found' error in both Firefox and IE7.. if I reboot, it usually goes away..

3.) On occasion, i'll install new software, which will install correctly and Vista will give me the 'It appears that the software didn't install correctly' error.. it doesn't give it everytime, just sometimes..


My PC was a prebuilt, so the HDD has a recovery partition on it.. I have a recovery disc I made or I can use Anytime Upgrade to do a fresh install, however, I'm not sure if my OEM key will work with the fresh install, will it?

Deleting files isn't a problem for me since both of my HDD's are split down the middle, and I have backup copies of all of my software as well as I store all of my files/media on partitions separate from the one Vista resides on.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

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CPU: AMD x2 3800+
RAM: Kingston / 5GB (2GB + 2GB + 512MB + 512MB @ 4-4-4-12)
Video Card: evga 7600GT (256MB GDDR3)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200.10 (16MB Cache) x2
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makmillion

Anyone?

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Mainboard: MSI K9NBPM2-FID
CPU: AMD x2 3800+
RAM: Kingston / 5GB (2GB + 2GB + 512MB + 512MB @ 4-4-4-12)
Video Card: evga 7600GT (256MB GDDR3)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200.10 (16MB Cache) x2
Optical: LG H41N + LG H44L
Case: Xclio 188A (Black/Blue)
OS: XP Pro
Display: Acer AL2016W
Audio: Logitech x-230 (Arrived - man these things rock!)

ThatGuy16

It might be right, my 320gb drives shows as 298gb and at the moment i have 202gb free.

320-298= 22gb
160-136= 24gb

I think its just a marketing scheme?

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CPU: C2D E8400 @ 4Ghz 1.24v
HSF: Apogee GTX
MB: Gigabyte X38-DS4
Ram: 2x2GB G. Skill DDR2-1068
HDD: 320GB Seagate
PSU: OCZ GameXStream 700w
OS: Vista Home Premium 64bit
GFX: 2x HD4850 Crossfire
LCD: LG 22" L226WTQ
3DMark06: 20826

makmillion

It can't be right.. the drive was installed almost a month ago and has worked since.. up until last night when I shut down the computer, today it didn't register a formatted drive, it registered as 'unallocated space' and at only 136GB.

In any event, the computer was rebooted and the drive was recognize right away..

The problem is that Vista didn't recognize it the first time I turned on the computer today, as well as the other problems I've listed above.

__________________
Mainboard: MSI K9NBPM2-FID
CPU: AMD x2 3800+
RAM: Kingston / 5GB (2GB + 2GB + 512MB + 512MB @ 4-4-4-12)
Video Card: evga 7600GT (256MB GDDR3)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200.10 (16MB Cache) x2
Optical: LG H41N + LG H44L
Case: Xclio 188A (Black/Blue)
OS: XP Pro
Display: Acer AL2016W
Audio: Logitech x-230 (Arrived - man these things rock!)

ThatGuy16

Hmm, that is strange..

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CPU: C2D E8400 @ 4Ghz 1.24v
HSF: Apogee GTX
MB: Gigabyte X38-DS4
Ram: 2x2GB G. Skill DDR2-1068
HDD: 320GB Seagate
PSU: OCZ GameXStream 700w
OS: Vista Home Premium 64bit
GFX: 2x HD4850 Crossfire
LCD: LG 22" L226WTQ
3DMark06: 20826