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Western Digital 250GB External hard drive problem...

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I have a Western Digital 250 GB External hard drive and I've noticed over time that I haven't had full capacity on it.

Today, I went and checked it and my total used+free space only equals 149 GB! What happened to the other 99?!? Is there any way to recover it?
 
I have heard of sectors going bad, but that is beyond the realm of anything I have seen. Are there multiple partitions on the drive? If not, is it in a place where it might be over-heating or something?
 
check your partitions in
start -> settings -> control panel -> administration (??? no clue, no windows) -> computer administration -> storage devices (??)
 
I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for here, I don't see anything about partitions, just to make it "Active" or delete it.
 
If you are running XP, you can right click "My Computer" and select Manage. From there, you can go to Storage->Disk Management. It should list the Volumes you have (Partitions), and below that should be your list of disks, where you can create and delete partitions.
 
Okay, it just shows the drive as being one whole partition of 149 GB...

Would formatting the drive help at all? I don't want to do it if its not gonna help at all.
 
what version of windows are you using? someone correct me if i'm wrong, but i thought you had to have XP service pack 2 or 3 to show the full size of some oft he larger drives?

have you ever had "full capacity" on it?
 
XP w/ Service Pack 3

When I first got it, I know there wasn't actually 250 GB of space, it was like 230-240.
 
you will never have the stated size of the drive because some of it is used up when you format the drive. so a 250 is going to show less. but that is not what is going on here. if it's size is being reported differently now than before definitely something is wrong, but i'm not sure what it is. do you have serial number maybe this is a known problem that we can google.
 
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