Guest Erik Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 Hey there, I have a windows 2000 advanced server computer running with 2 drives in it, one (the one smaller then 137GB as a boot disk with windows installed on it, the second one is bigger then 137 GB (200GB). It's an old computer so the BIOS doesn't support a 48-bit LBA and there aren't BIOS upgrades that do support it. So I bought a IDE/SATA raid controller with a PCI slot, after I connected the drive the windows 2000 advanced server installation cd (including SP4) could easilly recognize the disk at full size so I formatted it into 1 partition. After creating the registry key 'EnableBigLba' all worked fine and windows could recognize the big HDD. But, and now I got quite confused, after copying lots of data unto the disk about 160GB, windows said there was only 137 GB on the disk and there was lots of space left (about 50GB). But that's not right! I put more then 137 GB on the disk! So I summed up all folder sizes apart to see if the sum of folders was greater then 137GB, but it wasn't. I counted all the files that I copied on the source HDD and the destination HDD (the server HDD), but they matched, there weren't any files lost. So now I'm wondering, Is there really 137GB data on the disk so there must be data corruption, OR Is windows 2000 giving me wrong information and how should I know when the disk is full then? I hope anyone could help me understand what's happening, cause I don't think it makes any sence. Yours faithfully, Erik Hubers
Guest nesredep egrob Posted December 6, 2007 Posted December 6, 2007 Re: Strange 137GB problem on Windows 2000 On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 06:10:01 -0800, Erik <Erik@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >Hey there, > >I have a windows 2000 advanced server computer running with 2 drives in it, >one (the one smaller then 137GB as a boot disk with windows installed on it, >the second one is bigger then 137 GB (200GB). > >It's an old computer so the BIOS doesn't support a 48-bit LBA and there >aren't BIOS upgrades that do support it. So I bought a IDE/SATA raid >controller with a PCI slot, after I connected the drive the windows 2000 >advanced server installation cd (including SP4) could easilly recognize the >disk at full size so I formatted it into 1 partition. After creating the >registry key 'EnableBigLba' all worked fine and windows could recognize the >big HDD. > >But, and now I got quite confused, after copying lots of data unto the disk >about 160GB, windows said there was only 137 GB on the disk and there was >lots of space left (about 50GB). >But that's not right! I put more then 137 GB on the disk! So I summed up all >folder sizes apart to see if the sum of folders was greater then 137GB, but >it wasn't. I counted all the files that I copied on the source HDD and the >destination HDD (the server HDD), but they matched, there weren't any files >lost. > >So now I'm wondering, >Is there really 137GB data on the disk so there must be data corruption, >OR >Is windows 2000 giving me wrong information and how should I know when the >disk is full then? > I think you should log in as the administrator and go to settings/control Panel/Administative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management and see what it says on there. You can see the size of the disks and the partitions and you can even with a right click see what is on the disk via the Explorer. That should get you in the mood to tell us what is going on Borge in sunny Perth, Australia >it makes any sence. > >Yours faithfully, > >Erik Hubers
Guest lukesh Posted December 6, 2007 Posted December 6, 2007 RE: Strange 137GB problem on Windows 2000 Yeah, Go to disk management and check out how much space it shows there. You can try running chkdsk to check the correct free space on the drive. You can also run streams.exe from sysinternals to check if there are alternate data streams. "Erik" wrote: > Hey there, > > I have a windows 2000 advanced server computer running with 2 drives in it, > one (the one smaller then 137GB as a boot disk with windows installed on it, > the second one is bigger then 137 GB (200GB). > > It's an old computer so the BIOS doesn't support a 48-bit LBA and there > aren't BIOS upgrades that do support it. So I bought a IDE/SATA raid > controller with a PCI slot, after I connected the drive the windows 2000 > advanced server installation cd (including SP4) could easilly recognize the > disk at full size so I formatted it into 1 partition. After creating the > registry key 'EnableBigLba' all worked fine and windows could recognize the > big HDD. > > But, and now I got quite confused, after copying lots of data unto the disk > about 160GB, windows said there was only 137 GB on the disk and there was > lots of space left (about 50GB). > But that's not right! I put more then 137 GB on the disk! So I summed up all > folder sizes apart to see if the sum of folders was greater then 137GB, but > it wasn't. I counted all the files that I copied on the source HDD and the > destination HDD (the server HDD), but they matched, there weren't any files > lost. > > So now I'm wondering, > Is there really 137GB data on the disk so there must be data corruption, > OR > Is windows 2000 giving me wrong information and how should I know when the > disk is full then? > > I hope anyone could help me understand what's happening, cause I don't think > it makes any sence. > > Yours faithfully, > > Erik Hubers
Guest Erik Posted December 6, 2007 Posted December 6, 2007 Re: Strange 137GB problem on Windows 2000 "nesredep egrob" wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 06:10:01 -0800, Erik <Erik@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > >Hey there, > > > >I have a windows 2000 advanced server computer running with 2 drives in it, > >one (the one smaller then 137GB as a boot disk with windows installed on it, > >the second one is bigger then 137 GB (200GB). > > > >It's an old computer so the BIOS doesn't support a 48-bit LBA and there > >aren't BIOS upgrades that do support it. So I bought a IDE/SATA raid > >controller with a PCI slot, after I connected the drive the windows 2000 > >advanced server installation cd (including SP4) could easilly recognize the > >disk at full size so I formatted it into 1 partition. After creating the > >registry key 'EnableBigLba' all worked fine and windows could recognize the > >big HDD. > > > >But, and now I got quite confused, after copying lots of data unto the disk > >about 160GB, windows said there was only 137 GB on the disk and there was > >lots of space left (about 50GB). > >But that's not right! I put more then 137 GB on the disk! So I summed up all > >folder sizes apart to see if the sum of folders was greater then 137GB, but > >it wasn't. I counted all the files that I copied on the source HDD and the > >destination HDD (the server HDD), but they matched, there weren't any files > >lost. > > > >So now I'm wondering, > >Is there really 137GB data on the disk so there must be data corruption, > >OR > >Is windows 2000 giving me wrong information and how should I know when the > >disk is full then? > > > > I think you should log in as the administrator and go to settings/control > Panel/Administative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management > > and see what it says on there. You can see the size of the disks and the > partitions and you can even with a right click see what is on the disk via the > Explorer. > That should get you in the mood to tell us what is going on > > Borge in sunny Perth, Australia > > > >it makes any sence. > > > >Yours faithfully, > > > >Erik Hubers > > Diskmanager gave me the same information as the disk properties (tried that already ;) ), size partition 186GB (I lost some gigs 2 years ago), and 137GB used. But I already got the answer on another forum, thanks for your help anyway :). It's only windows 2000 that's giving me the wrong information, there's actually more data on the disk then windows show me. So everything works fine exept the info windows give me.
Guest lukesh Posted December 10, 2007 Posted December 10, 2007 Re: Strange 137GB problem on Windows 2000 This is weired. I have not heared of such a bug being reported earlier. If windows is misreporting disk information, there has to be a reason for it. "Erik" wrote: > > > "nesredep egrob" wrote: > > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 06:10:01 -0800, Erik <Erik@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > > > >Hey there, > > > > > >I have a windows 2000 advanced server computer running with 2 drives in it, > > >one (the one smaller then 137GB as a boot disk with windows installed on it, > > >the second one is bigger then 137 GB (200GB). > > > > > >It's an old computer so the BIOS doesn't support a 48-bit LBA and there > > >aren't BIOS upgrades that do support it. So I bought a IDE/SATA raid > > >controller with a PCI slot, after I connected the drive the windows 2000 > > >advanced server installation cd (including SP4) could easilly recognize the > > >disk at full size so I formatted it into 1 partition. After creating the > > >registry key 'EnableBigLba' all worked fine and windows could recognize the > > >big HDD. > > > > > >But, and now I got quite confused, after copying lots of data unto the disk > > >about 160GB, windows said there was only 137 GB on the disk and there was > > >lots of space left (about 50GB). > > >But that's not right! I put more then 137 GB on the disk! So I summed up all > > >folder sizes apart to see if the sum of folders was greater then 137GB, but > > >it wasn't. I counted all the files that I copied on the source HDD and the > > >destination HDD (the server HDD), but they matched, there weren't any files > > >lost. > > > > > >So now I'm wondering, > > >Is there really 137GB data on the disk so there must be data corruption, > > >OR > > >Is windows 2000 giving me wrong information and how should I know when the > > >disk is full then? > > > > > > > I think you should log in as the administrator and go to settings/control > > Panel/Administative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management > > > > and see what it says on there. You can see the size of the disks and the > > partitions and you can even with a right click see what is on the disk via the > > Explorer. > > That should get you in the mood to tell us what is going on > > > > Borge in sunny Perth, Australia > > > > > > >it makes any sence. > > > > > >Yours faithfully, > > > > > >Erik Hubers > > > > > > Diskmanager gave me the same information as the disk properties (tried that > already ;) ), size partition 186GB (I lost some gigs 2 years ago), and 137GB > used. > But I already got the answer on another forum, thanks for your help anyway > :). > > It's only windows 2000 that's giving me the wrong information, there's > actually more data on the disk then windows show me. So everything works fine > exept the info windows give me.
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