HDD gets smaller after i use the toshiba recovery CD

THE PERSON | 16:01 Wed 29th Oct 2008 | Technology

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Hi,
recently i reinstalled XP home on my laptop it had a 140GB hard drive but after using the recovery softeare it shrunk to 30 Gb does anyone know whats happened and how i can fix it
Thanks.

ps.TOSHIBA equium L100 is laptop

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Ethel

Download this free program to see what's taking up your hard disc space

http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.sht ml

ACtheTROLL

look in my computer - have you now got a C drive that's 30 Gb and a new D drive that's about 100Gb?

if you want a util that will show what size folders are - look at
http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/

a handy little prog that works in explorer

but not in vista

BIGDOGY

Did you format drive C before reinstalling Windows?
I had a similar problem when I reinstalled Vista on my machine, didnt format the drive, lost all memory space and had to do the job all over again to recover it.

THE PERSON

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there are no extra drives or any thing i'll try formatting t
it first

zifah

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