Windows XP thinks new Harddrive is full

[Bob S]

I loaded windows xp professional into a older computer and
got the program in. However, as I added office and other
big programs, the harddrive filled up. A more
knowledgable friend put in a new harddrive and moved
everything onto it. It worked ok briefly, but is now very
sluggish. One clue is when I run my checkbook in Quicken
and try to back it up on the harddrive, it seems to think
it is full. It's a 120 gb drive and has plenty of room,
but windows doesn't seem to have recovered from when it
thought the drive was full. Any suggestions?

Bob S

 

[Jetro]

Run 'chkdsk /f /r'.

 

[Tatiana Stevens]

I loaded windows xp professional into a older computer and
got the program in. However, as I added office and other
big programs, the harddrive filled up. A more
knowledgable friend put in a new harddrive and moved
everything onto it. It worked ok briefly, but is now very
sluggish. One clue is when I run my checkbook in Quicken
and try to back it up on the harddrive, it seems to think
it is full. It's a 120 gb drive and has plenty of room,
but windows doesn't seem to have recovered from when it
thought the drive was full. Any suggestions?

Bob S

Without knowing what your friend used to move the information to the new hard
drive, it sounds like it was somehow cloned as the same size as the
original. You could probably use third party partitioning software like
Partition Magic or BootIT NG to resize the current partition. If you can boot
to the restored partition and access all your applications on the new hard
drive, then resizing the partiton with the above mentioned software should
solve your problems.
BootIT NG offers a full functioning demo that will work to resize the
partition, but Partition Magic is easier for the inexperienced user.

Terabyte BootIT NG
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/

Partition Magic
http://www.powerquest.com/

Tatiana Stevens