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  1. October 8th, 2006, 12:43 PM #1
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    HDD Partition Error

    I have a client's computer here with an error I have never had before.

    The HDD is an 80Gig, however it is only showing as a 10 Gig in My Computer, but, when I go to disk management in Admin Tools it shows the full 80Gig.

    The Drive is formated as Fat32. I ran Partition Magic and it comes back as a type 7 partition with no options to convert.

    The computer is running Win XP and I would prefer it if I could set it up as NTFS.
    Also it is dual booting with Ubuntu Linux and I don't want to lose the Linux Boot manager as I am not very knowledgeable on how to fix that
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  2. October 8th, 2006, 12:45 PM #2
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    OK, so how big is the linux partition? Is there a swap partition for ubuntu?
    What partitions are shown in disk managent?
    What service pack level is xp?
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  3. October 8th, 2006, 12:50 PM #3
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    Thanks for the quick reply NooNoo.

    I should have mentioned that the Linux is on a separated drive and XP SP2
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    ok... so xp is on which drive... the primary master?
    And do you mean that there is a single partition of 80gig shown in disk management?
    Does the model number for the drive match the actual model?
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    Yes XP is on Primary Master and management shows a single Fat32 80Gig partition. Model numbers are matching.
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  6. October 8th, 2006, 01:13 PM #6
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    how big does this say the drive is?
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  7. October 8th, 2006, 01:16 PM #7
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    run sfc I think it may be spyware or a virus that has compromised explorer.... unless this only happened since ubuntu was loaded?
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