250 gig hard drive

[Reenigne1]

I had a logial hard drive that was 250 giabytes in size.
I filled up more than 137 gig worth of hard drive and
would have at least 50 gig left of space to fill up.

One day about a week ago, when my computer was starting
up, chkdsk came on and started checking the disk. The
problem was that every file it found and every problem it
encountered, was followed first by "attempting recovery
of orphened file" then by "Insifient space to recover".

When chkdsk.exe finally finished checking and entered the
windows XP GUI, the logical drive was gone. It tells me
that there is no information on that disk.

Here's the kicker: when I restart my system, chkdisk will
come on, and it will find and check the logical drive
that windows says is no longer there. Although it still
says that there is no space left on the volume to put
fixed files.

Could this be due to the inablity of chkdsk.exe to read
beyond 137 gigabytes. Even if both the bios and windows
support drives larger than 137 gig, dont individual
programs also have to be able to detect more than 137?

could it be that chkdsk cant detect drives above 137 gig?

system:
Windows XP pro
service pack one
dual AMD 1.2 gighertz
1 gig ram
hard drive:Western Digital 250 GB w\ 8MB buffer

 

[DL]

Your WinXp was updated?
The disk was correctly identified in bios?
The 'largelba' registration entry was correct?
There was an MVP post that suggested a large disk that had been formatted
prior to any 'largelba' fixes been undertaken could later cause disk
structure problems.
There may be a disk health check utility available on the WD site
David