Hard drive Install Problem - Please Help!

apatel1205 · Joined: Apr 18, 2008 Posts: 4

Hello All,

I am a bit of a newbie, so pls bear with me. I will try to describe the issue the best I can, pls let me know what further details I can provide.

- I had a system built with an ASUS Motherboard (M2AVM), 1GB of Crucial RAM, AMD 64X2 Processor (Dual Core), and a WD 250GB Hard Drive
- I installed Windows Vista Ultimate and everything has been working fine.
- I tried to install a second hard drive (IDE) from my old computer (Seagate - purchased 4-5 years ago). The hard drive is filled to capacity (120GB).
- I plugged in the HD and set the jumpers so that it shows as "Primary-Slave" under the IDE section in BIOS. Thus, I figure it is installed and working properly. From the IDE cable, I plugged the "gray" piece into the hard drive rather than the "black" piece.
- I log into Vista, and I can see the drive under MyComputer, however, when I try to access it, it gives me the message "E:/ is not accessible. There is not enough space on the disk"
- Under properties, it shows nothing under File System (I believe it should be showing NTFS?) and it shows 0KB for both free space and used space (the entire colour of the pie is blue)

I would greatly appreciate any advice, my entire music library and photos are on this hardrive!!

Thanks in advance

p.s. This hard drive was working fine in my old system running Windows XP

Werebo · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:28 pm Post subject:

Allo Apatel and welcome to the Lockergnome forum

This is sort of inspired guesswork, as I don't have Vista, but....

If your drive is formatted as NTFS and is completely full, it's possible that Vista (if it's similar to XP) hasn't got enough space to write it's indexing files.

In WinXP, there's a hidden folder on each NTFS drive called 'System Volume Information', that contains (I think) any files covered by the various Windows protection apps, the file indexing service and possibly some System Restore stuff.

It might well be that Vista needs more space for it's stuff than XP - hence the error message.

Is it possible to hook the drive back into it's original PC and move some files to a CD or DVD??? That should free up enough space for Vista to be able to work with it

goretsky

Hello,

How is the Western Digital 250GB hard disk drive conection to the Asus M2AVM motherboard? Perhaps there is a conflict relating to how the two hard disk drives are installed.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Werebo

I don't think there's a hardware problem, the drive is appearing in Vista, under 'My Computer'. It's just showing a 'Drive full - unable to access' error

apatel1205 · Joined: Apr 18, 2008 Posts: 4

Werebo

Thank you so much, your solution worked, I deleted some files off the hard drive using my old system and plugged back in and it works!!

Thanks again!

Apatel

Werebo

I'm glad it worked for you

(mainly because if it hadn't worked, I would have been been out of ideas Wink

)

Thanks for posting back with the results, too. It's nice to be able to draw a line under a successful cure