Lost 150Gb worth of memory on D:Drive after System Restore

[Guest]

Just bought new P.C. with 250Gb of space, 100Gb on Crive and 150Gb on
D:drive.
Am using Windows XP home, I did something stupid and did a system restore,
now my Drive has a file called System restore on it (properties say it is
under 1mb is size) and now saying my total disk space for D is 3.5Gb.

What did I do and how can I get my memory back?!!

cheers.

 

[ByTor]

Just bought new P.C. with 250Gb of space, 100Gb on Crive and 150Gb on
D:drive.
Am using Windows XP home, I did something stupid and did a system restore,
now my Drive has a file called System restore on it (properties say it is
under 1mb is size) and now saying my total disk space for D is 3.5Gb.

What did I do and how can I get my memory back?!!

cheers.

Give it up for system restore to not have a brain.........Sounds to me
like you resized your partitions after you bought it and because the
full system restore doesn't know any better it wiped your whole drive to
its original state.........

Or, maybe I'm wrong and somehow it sounds like you lost your 2nd
partition some other way........Not sure how you got your machine when
you first bought it but I never seen one partitioned that way unless
Ghost came pre-installed.....And even with ghost installed a second
partition was not that large.

 

[ByTor]

Give it up for system restore to not have a brain.........Sounds to me
like you resized your partitions after you bought it and because the
full system restore doesn't know any better it wiped your whole drive to
its original state.........

Or, maybe I'm wrong and somehow it sounds like you lost your 2nd
partition some other way........Not sure how you got your machine when
you first bought it but I never seen one partitioned that way unless
Ghost came pre-installed.....And even with ghost installed a second
partition was not that large.

Oh & BTW, I did neglect to say that to verify it indeed wiped your D
what is the size of C now?

 

[Gordon]

Just bought new P.C. with 250Gb of space, 100Gb on Crive and 150Gb on
D:drive.
Am using Windows XP home, I did something stupid and did a system restore,
now my Drive has a file called System restore on it (properties say it is
under 1mb is size) and now saying my total disk space for D is 3.5Gb.

What did I do and how can I get my memory back?!!

cheers.

Firstly, disk space is NOT memory". Secondly, right-click on My
Computer, choose "manage". Under "Storage" click on Disk management.
What do you see there?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Just bought new P.C. with 250Gb of space, 100Gb on Crive and
150Gb on D:drive.
Am using Windows XP home, I did something stupid and did a system
restore, now my Drive has a file called System restore on it
(properties say it is under 1mb is size) and now saying my total
disk space for D is 3.5Gb.

What did I do and how can I get my memory back?!!

You lost no memory - at least none evident in your post.
You lost files/disk space.

System Restore does not affect your files. It *can* in specific cases:
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kb...Miscellaneous/SystemRestoreandtheDesktop.html
However - your description does not seem to fall under this case.

Perhaps an application like "Undelete" might help?

 

[Guest]

Crive has still got 100Gb on it.

Oh & BTW, I did neglect to say that to verify it indeed wiped your D
what is the size of C now?

 

[Guest]

Sorry Gordon, was out there.....

I did as you instructed and it is saying exactley the same as properties was
saying, C:drive is fine with 100Gb but Drive is down to 3Gb, both saying
healthy.
Any ideas??

 

[Gordon]

Sorry Gordon, was out there.....

I did as you instructed and it is saying exactley the same as properties was
saying, C:drive is fine with 100Gb but Drive is down to 3Gb, both saying
healthy.
Any ideas??

It doesn't show any free space?

 

[Guest]

For the Drive it says that I have used 50% of my space ie 1.5Gb, but I dont
have anything on it apart from this Restore settings file which is less than
1mb. When I double click on this file it comes up saying I should not delete
it.

 

[Gordon]

For the Drive it says that I have used 50% of my space ie 1.5Gb, but I dont
have anything on it apart from this Restore settings file which is less than
1mb. When I double click on this file it comes up saying I should not delete
it.

I meant that Disk management doesn't show any unformatted free space?

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Are wee discussing one hard drive divided into two partitions or two hard
drives?

If the latter who partitioned the drive? You or the person from whom you
bought the computer?

Are the hard drives formatted as FAT32 or NTFS?

Have you put any data files on your D drive?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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[ByTor]

You lost no memory - at least none evident in your post.
You lost files/disk space.

System Restore does not affect your files. It *can* in specific cases:

You are correct......But it also depends on what the OP means by system
restore.....A *full* restore CD will wipe the drive right out on it's
own bringing it back to a one partition disk if that's the way the
machine first came.......In this case, and I hate to say it, it seems
like pulling teeth with the OP.

 

[Guest]

Hi Gerry, thanks for getting back to my problem.

The hard drive is one drive that was already partitioned when I bought it.

Crive is NTFS and Drive is FAT32.

Thanks!

 

[ByTor]

Hi Gerry, thanks for getting back to my problem.

The hard drive is one drive that was already partitioned when I bought it.

Crive is NTFS and Drive is FAT32.

Thanks!

You still did not answer an important question.......When you look in
disk management are you seeing **free** unformatted space?? If 3gig is
already formatted than the other 147gig(not exact but close) has to show
somewhere.

Is it labeling the drive as a 250gig drive in the left box?

I think in order to effectivly help you you have to give a little back
ya know........and that means giving the correct information because it
is important.