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    Windows 7 Hard Drive size ridiculously far off, Disk Management shows full drive size

    I'm writing this from a live cd of Ubuntu right now. I'm currently running the partition manager which is letting me do what you suggested. It is also scanning the drive for inconsistencies. Hopefully this can do the trick. If not, I think I'll just try to format the whole drive and start...
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    Windows 7 Hard Drive size ridiculously far off, Disk Management shows full drive size

    Well, I'm thinking that would be a fix, but it returns this error every time: "The parameter is incorrect." I don't think I need to post a screenshot, as the error message doesn't offer any other information. It is reading the size of the volume properly, but the "amount of space to shrink in...
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    Windows 7 Hard Drive size ridiculously far off, Disk Management shows full drive size

    I ran chkdsk, which did not find any errors. Here's the Partition Manager Properties page. I wasn't sure which tab you wanted to see, so here's all three: The General Tab: Link Removed due to 404 Error The File System Tab: Link Removed due to 404 Error And, lastly, the Advanced Tab...
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    Windows 7 Hard Drive size ridiculously far off, Disk Management shows full drive size

    I ran chkdsk before the clean install and it did nothing. I also ran a similar utility from Paragon Partition Manager. I'll run chkdsk again and see what happens. And in reply to the first post, I have restarted numerous times, reinstalled windows, and tried anything else I can think of to...
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    Windows 7 Hard Drive size ridiculously far off, Disk Management shows full drive size

    Ok, I've searched all over every forum I can think of and I can't find anything anywhere. I apologize if this has been answered on this site; I couldn't find it. My C: drive has been displaying a size of around 60 gb with 40 free even though it's a 300 gb drive. I thought the issue would...
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