serious hard disk problem

nani_amb · #1 Oct 7, 2006, 08:03 PM

i have a 20Gb Seagate, i set it as a slave (40Gb Maxtor being master). when i open "My Computer" it tells me that my seagate still have 5.75Gb of free space but when i browse it i only shows "My Documents" folder and "mydocuments.000" file (i moved My Documents' path to the Seagate drive).what happened? ..and what should i do?

Sager · Nov 2, 2006, 12:57 PM

Did you format the Seagate drive before using ? I ran into this problem when I installed a 160 Gig Seagate but after formatting the drive all went well.
I hope you backed up all your documents to CD from My Documents before moving to the Seagate HD.
You might go to
http://www.seagate.com/contact/index.html
Under Technical Support, there is a link you can use for e-mail and get Technical Support.



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