Hard drive problem

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mark winslow

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Bought my son an acer aspire notebook that came preloaded with windows xp media center edition OS, 120 gig hard drive. Came back for xmas break now the control panel lists the hard drive as 53Gigs, with 1 gig of space left. The disk properties lists the disk as being formated in FAT 32. I thought XP systems utilize NTFS. What kind of a glich would cause this and how do I remedy it? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
 
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mark winslow said:
Bought my son an acer aspire notebook that came preloaded with windows xp media center edition OS, 120 gig hard drive. Came back for xmas break now the control panel lists the hard drive as 53Gigs, with 1 gig of space left. The disk properties lists the disk as being formated in FAT 32. I thought XP systems utilize NTFS. What kind of a glich would cause this and how do I remedy it? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
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Was anyone tampering with the comptuer? It would require (usually) a reformat to change the file system, along with reinstalling windows, etc.
 
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Was anyone tampering with the comptuer? It would require (usually) a reformat to change the file system, along with reinstalling windows, etc.
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Its unlikely it was reformated (without my sos knowledge). The programs I loaded are still on there (he didnt have the disks to load them back again). Thats why I'm thinking it must be some kind of glitch. Me son would not mess with it in that way even if he had the time, which he didn't.
 
hmm you have a wierd problem here. I suggest email/calling the supplyer and informing them see what they say
 
Installed partition magic on the machine. It appears that it is formatted in FAT 32. The hard drive is partitioned C, D, and service (hidden). I originally thought that the D drive was the service partition. It appears it is ignorance on my part. My next question is should I reformat the drive for NTFS or just change the partition values (with partition magic)? Isn't it odd that it is formatted in FAT 32?
 
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I think I solved the problem. I deleted the D partition and from the command prompt am converting the C drive to NTFS (From what I hear there is no need to break thde partitions down in NTFS). I didn't realize it was possible to convert the drive without reformatting and losing the data.
 
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