Lorne ,'Smile Time'
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I got my desktop computer back from MicroCenter and my data is secure! And it works! And so on...
Except that I used to have a 640Gb hard drive partitioned into two equal size drives of ~320Gb... and now I only seem to see one ~320Gb (which shows 288Gb in Windows Explorer, but IIRC that's normal).
My question is... is this something that I can fix here at home, or had I better get on the horn back to MicroCenter and start complaining pronto?
complain, first.
I keep thinking there should be something deep in the Control Panel that will fix it with a couple clicks. But if nobody here knows that offhand (given the Buffista general level of expertise), I KNOW I'm DOOMED to probably have to take the Damnthing back, a day after I got it home again.
SIGH
I should take pictures of my new job and submit. It's not all I.T. wiring, but equally harrowing in places.
This is one reason I'm a tiny bit bummed I've been promoted from Crew Lead to Associate Designer for Halloween this year -- my crew's cable runs looked better than everybody else's. The higher-ups even said as much.
Of course, we burned through probably three times the zip ties of any other team in order to make that happen....
Except that I used to have a 640Gb hard drive partitioned into two equal size drives of ~320Gb... and now I only seem to see one ~320Gb (which shows 288Gb in Windows Explorer, but IIRC that's normal)
Was there data on the second partition? If not, you should take a look in Control Panel >> Administrative Tools >> Computer Management >> Disc management And see if there's a partition that's not active.
If there was data on the second partition, then go straight back to MicroCenter.
Thanks, Jon! I tried and it's stubbornly telling me that it only has 320. So there'll be a trip back to the store in just a little while longer....
My antivirus detected a thing it called a POSSIBLE_HFIRM(or something like that) but it couldn't remove it(I've got the company working on it, too,ftr) Computer seems fine...but I've just been through Virus Hell...how much should I be concerned about this?
Of course, we burned through probably three times the zip ties of any other team in order to make that happen....zip ties are cheap, awesome cable runs are priceless. Seems like a good deal to me. Especially where safety is involved.
I'll be buying extra zip ties this year.
We caught a bit of flak for going through so many zip ties. Of course, part of the problem was that we lost a bag for a few days, which caused Drew to have to make an emergency zip tie run that turned out to be unnecessary....