Hard Drives

[Guest]

When I got my HP Pavilion zd8080 about six months ago it came with
a Fujitsu MHU2100AT hard drive (100gb)...a couple of months later when I ran
a check with BeLarc Advisor it now says that I have a Toshiba MK3021GAS hard
drive with only 30gb...the computer hasn't been out of my possession. How
does that happen and what can I do to get the 100 gb HD back?

 

[seth]

what does my computer report for a drive size?

 

[Guest]

Free space 12.9, total size 26.4...and when I hit properties it's formated as
NFTS, with used 13.4 free 12.9 and capcy of 28.4....

 

[seth]

what about disk management? does it show correctly in there?
also look at the bios to see if it's seeing the correct size

 

[Alan]

Those are different makes of drive apart from the size. Take the drive out
and write down the information on it- see what you *really* have before you
go chasing after something you may not have.

 

[Rctfreak]

When I got my HP Pavilion zd8080 about six months ago it came with
a Fujitsu MHU2100AT hard drive (100gb)...a couple of months later when I ran
a check with BeLarc Advisor it now says that I have a Toshiba MK3021GAS hard
drive with only 30gb...the computer hasn't been out of my possession. How
does that happen and what can I do to get the 100 gb HD back?

Are you sure it came with the larger drive? Did you run a check on it
when you first got it to see?

 

[Guest]

I checked my original invoice and it said it had a 100gb hard-drive and sure
enough right after I purchased it, I ran BeLarc and it said that I had the
100gb Fujitsu. While going thru the paperwork, I was reminded that I had
to take it back to the dealer about three months after I purchased it to have
a virus removed and they kept it for several days and saved all of my files
to a disk while they reformatted the hard drive. When I got it back, a
couple of months later I ran another BeLarc and discovered that I only had a
30gb hard-drive. I was getting "low system resources" which is why I checked
it. When I run the disk management it confirms that I only have a 30gb
Toshiba. My next step is to take it back to Fryes and confront the service
manager with the facts and see if he has an explanation. Fortunately, I
bought the service contract from Fryes when I bought the computer.