as my pc showing 80gb hard drive as 78.2 gb almost, and hard drive is brand new.
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some capacity is taken by cluster and is not shown
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Make sure you have the latest servicepack installed (SP2). You'll need it anyways if you wanna keep receiving updates from the Windows site.\nIf the BIOS detects the harddrive in full, start XP and goto Disk Management > Action > Rescan disks and see if it will pick up the correct size.\nIf the BIOS doesn't recognize the harddrive as 320 Gb, you'll need to find an updated BIOS for your motherboard. Check the site of the manufacturer for that (most motherboards made after 2003 will be able to recognize large harddrives).\nAs a last resort, you can goto the website of the manufacturer of the harddrive to see if they have extra drivers that will solve the problem for you.
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Usually no, these files are small.  Do a search for large files on the disk to find out what is taking up the space.
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Don't listen to the answers below mine.\n\nFormat your hard drive.
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You may have accidentally drop your PC or there may be some foreign object in your hard drive.
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my computer \nfind your C: or other drive\nright click properties .. \n\nthis will tell you how much space you have
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You are probably using IDE...Piece of cake!\n\nPurchase a new HD (if not already), shut off the computer and unplug power. Remove static electricity and open up the case. Pull out the existing hard drive and set it to either Master of Cable Select (your computer should support CS). Now set the new HD to Slave or Cable Select if the Master drive is on CS, and hook it up to the open IDE plug on the same cable that is attached to your primary HD. Install the drive and plug in the power connector. NOTE: if you buy a hard drive larger than 137 gigs you will need to run specific software to enable large disk support...but 80 gigs is easy.\nNow turn your computer on and format the drive either in Disk Management or through My Computer!! Piece of cake!
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The optimum thing to do would be to swap the drives and re-install windows on the 80 gig.  But unfortunately thats a lot of work as everything will have to be re-installed.\n\nYour only other option would be to move as much as possible over to your drive D:. Data, files, anything you can. You won't be able to move your programs to D: unless you uninstall them from C: and re-install them on D:.\n\nOne thing you can do... if you have a lot of files in your My Documents folder is re-locate it to the D: drive.  To do this, just right-click on the "My Documents" folder on your desktop and hit "Properties" There will be a button that says "Move". Click on it and move it to say "D:&#92; My Documents".  It will even move all the files over for you. This should free up quite a bit of space.\n\nIf your C: drive is full, you can always delete some of the Windows Garbage files... here's a list of stuff you can safely delete...\n\nIn C:&#92; Windows... Any folder at the top that starts with "$" before it. Those are left-over Windows Update folders and can be safely deleted.\n\nAnything in C:&#92; Documents and Settings&#92; {username}&#92; Local Settings&#92; History&#92;\n\nAnything in C:&#92; Documents and Settings&#92; {username}&#92; Local Settings&#92; Temp&#92;\n\nAnything in C:&#92; Documents and Settings&#92; {username}&#92; Local Settings&#92; Temporary Internet Files&#92; \n\nYou can also move your windows page file over to D:. This is actually recommended by Microsoft for systems with more than one hard drive.\n\nTo do this Hit your Start button, Settings, Control Panel, System. Hit the Advanced Tab, then the Settings button under "Performance", then the Advanced Tab again, then the Change button.\n\nSelect drive C: in the list at the top, select the "No Paging File" radio button and hit the "Set" button.\n\nThen select drive D: in the list, select the "System managed Size" radio button, and hit "Set" again. Hit OK three times and re-boot the PC.\n\nWhen it comes back to your desktop, use Windows Explorer to browse to drive C: and delete the page file if its there. (It'll let you delete it now. You may have to turn on "Show protected operating system files" in Folder Options/View to see it.)\n\nThat should at least get you started...
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No, You are right to think that it remains on you hard drive but as far as you computer concerned it is free space and nothing has ever been there.
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it may be empty. what is the kb size?
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may be the old one was of less size like 650 MB .. check this also ..
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u need a chucknorrist size hard drive with a 365923675942365MegaByte Geschecnk, with a Graphics Staumbaum
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No, both hard drives are 4.3 GB. Just check for bad clusters (format it) and if they are OK you can use them
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Here is the solution:\n\n1.Open My Computer.\n2.Right-click on the HDD and select properties.
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Maybe your hard drive needs to be de-fragged?
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Your post is a bit confusing but if I have it correctly it sounds like it could be a variety of things.\n\nIf the OS is saying 0 MB used and free, then I would check that you have it hooked up correctly first.  If that's all good, then try the hard drive on a different computer to see if it works there.  If it does not, then there's something you're not doing correctly with your current PC.  Whether it be the hook up or installation of software for the external HD, or even possibly the OS itself.  If it doesn't work with another computer, then it's the harddrive itself that's the problem.
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Your HD is to small, If your Total HD is 2GB, It take 2GB of Total Partition  to put XP on the Disk.\nHarry