Having had looked at some of the other questions around here, I know what the answer most would think is to my question (i.e. Binary to Metric conversion) but bear with me:
I am being told now by my XPSP2 laptop that my 232GB External Hard Drive has no free space left to copy into. Yet it also detects nearly 100GB free, and there is 132GB of space currently being used. Surely this can't be put down to just partition tables. What's going on? What can I do to fix this?
2007-03-29 12:56:37 · 2 answers · asked by max_ridley 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Having had looked at some of the other questions around here, I know what the answer most would think is to my question (i.e. Binary to Metric conversion) but bear with me:
I am being told now by my XPSP2 laptop that my 232GB External Hard Drive has no free space left to copy into. Yet it also detects nearly 100GB free, and there is 132GB of space currently being used. Surely this can't be put down to just partition tables. What's going on? What can I do to fix this?
I mention its XPSP2 because I realise that XP without the Service Packs doesn't recognise more than 137GB (but I thought this didn't apply to SP2 - otherwise why would they even sell 137GB hard drives?) and I'm aware this is problem that may be cured by a format (but I wish to avoid that, as I am currently using 132GB of it)
2007-03-29 13:06:26 · update #1
My laptop is about 5 months oldHPDV6095 so the BIOS should be up to date as well.
2007-03-29 13:13:56 · update #2