thanks Anodoin , I tried that, and I am happy to say it shows me as having 0 kb as bad sectors. But sad to say I still dont know where the missing gigs are. I am honestly about to just give up and live with the ones I have.Thanks again everyone, this is a real nice site here.!!
You know I'm still sorta leaning towards the limit... If you would try one more thing, run chkdsk /R on the drive that's giving you woes, see if any bad sectors show up.
Patio: I think he's saying he's showing 119 total, with 8gigs used on a fresh XP install, leaving 111 free.