XP SP2 and error reporting size of hard drive

[Lloyd Lamere]

System: Dell 400 Server, NTSF file system, 512Mb Ram.
Western Digital 80 Gb hard drive.

After upgrading to SP2, system reports only 1 Gb space
total on the drive, with 246 Mb available.... yet when you
use chkdsk or other tools, it still has about 76 Gb space
left. I am unable to run chkdsk /f to repair this. What
can be done to repair this problem. Every program I try
to load now which has any size reports back "insufficient
space" to load the program. We have tried thru the Repair
Consloe already and had no luck in FIXING the problem, but
it DID report ERRORS FOUND when it ran the check.

 

[Bill James]

Please expand on why you are unable to use chkdsk /f.

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[Lloyd Lamere]

The system doesnt allow chkdsk /f to be run. Comes back
with cant "lock" the drive. Manual attempts to lock
unsuccessful. System asks can it run chkdsk on next
reboot. Say yes, and all it does is run the regular
chkdsk, which DOES report "errors found... run chkdsk /f
to repair", but you cant do it. Tried booting to old DOS
6.22, but NTSF file system, so, no go THERE either. Now
running third party software to attemtp to gain access to
MBR and to hard drive definition/utility files.

Lloyd