127GB limit in NTFS

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LLocke

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I am using a Barracuda 7200.10 SATA 3.0Gb/s 250-GB Hard Drive. About a week after installation of Windows Vista premium 32bit I suddenly noticed that the drive started showing only 127 GB of hard drive space. I am very puzzled by this because I know 48bit LBA is enabled so the 127 GB limit should not apply. Indeed in Disk Management it shows the C partition as 232gb NTFS and populating the drive in the disk properties yields the same size, but a chkdsk run will only read 127gb. I ran Seagate's seatools hard drive diagnostics on the drive for three hours with no errors. I combed through my eventvwr log back to installation and I find no disk errors.
What could be causing this?
 

My Computer

System One

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    E6850
    Motherboard
    EVGA 122-CK-NF67-A1 680i
    Memory
    4 x OCZ Platinum 1GB
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB
    Sound Card
    SB X-Fi X Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung 23" 5MS
    Screen Resolution
    2048 x 1152
    Hard Drives
    2 x Barracuda 7200.10 320GB RAID 0 / 1 x 500GB Maxtor
    PSU
    Seasonic 600W M12
    Case
    CM Centurion 5
    Cooling
    air
    Internet Speed
    100Mbps
Tried the program. Gives an error that says it cannot read the driver and that the hard drive cannot be repaired; most comforting. At least the drive is still working I just can't use 100gb of it.
 

My Computer

System One

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