"Missing" Hard Drive Space

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I hope you were behind a firewall and had an antivirus program running. It
doesn't matter that you only visited "trusted sites". What matters is that
you were connected to the internet.

 

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I should also note, my new laptop has Media Center XP. Does Media Center XP
take up more HD space than XP Pro? Could changing from Media Center XP to XP
Pro open up more HD space? And if so, how could I change it without
formatting over the other files?

 

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Try HD Tune (freeware). Download and run it and see what it turns up.
http://www.hdtune.com/

Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on C:\ under Drive letter
and then double click the two page icon ( copy to
Clipboard ) and copy into a further message.

Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to
Clipboard ) and copy into a further message.

Also do a full surface scan with HD Tune.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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[guzarva16]

Laptop may have a hidden drive\partition($) (common with HP and Compaq) that
replaces a "Restore" CD.

 

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