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OK guys, this is the screen grab of the disk management page. I hope someone can suggest what's wrong and where are my missing GBs.

Hi Guys, Thanks for your feedback. I've had a busy weekend away from computers, so will upload a screen grab of the disk management page tonight. I'll also have a harder look at what's on the disk and clean it up as much as possible. My daughter has not done anything with Windows. She uses the pc mostly for networking etc and to play the SIMMS games. Cheers.

Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 1300 laptop which is about 4 years old. The OS is XP, with 1GB of RAM and a 60GB hard drive. This machine is used mostly by my daughter. The other day she said that the hard drive was full, which I thought was strange and when i looked at the properties of the drive, it told me it was a 34GB with approx 33GB used!!! I then went to the disk manager and checked there if there was any mysterious large partions that had been created; there wasn't! I'm baffled by this. Do any of you guys recognise the issue or had a similar experience. Can anyone suggest where the missing 20 ish GBs are :confused:

Hi, thanks for the reply. The files I'm trying to play are same that play fine from the USB sticks. The main types I have played are .mp3, .wav, .avi, .mpeg and jpeg. I'm mystified at the moment why they play from the USB stick and not even recognised on the USB hard drive. Today I have read a forum with a guy having a similar problem. He found that a 30GB partition, FAT32, worked. But I thought that's defeated the whole idea of trying to use a large hard drive to store all the videos. Regards, Ross

This has stumped me all weekend so hopefully one of you guys can think of something I haven't. I have a Silver Crest DVD Player model Dp-5300x. it has a USB input that I have successfully used with USB sticks for music and video files. The largest stick I use in it is 4GB. Clever me thought I'd buy a portable HDD and plug that in with lots of files on rather than copy files to the USB sticks. I bought an Iomega 250GB 2.5" HDD and reformatted it to FAT32. The DVD recognised it as a USB device but could not recognised any media file I put on it. Then I created a smaller partition of 125GB and tried again..... still no luck. Any other ideas guys? Ross

Hi RandyL, Thanks for that info. I tried all you suggested but still no fix. I'll endeavour to resolve it somehow. Cheers.

Hello FPCH, This is my first post so please be gentle with me :D I've been given an old PC and am updating it for use by my 11 year old son. The PC has an ASRock motherboard with 1GB RAM and WIN2000 Prof OS. I installed an Edimax EW-7128g PCI wireless card last night. It installed fine and worked great. However, whenever the PC boots, it says there is a new PCI device and launches the install wizard. I reloaded the Edimax software several times and the Ralink driver software seperately. It still thinks I have a new device. It's not a big problem, just irritating. What advice can you guys offer? Cheers!