My computer hard drive is showing that it has a capacity of 4.24 Gb
with the result that the hard drive is always nearly full with hardly
anything stored in the computer. When bought new the computer had a
hard drive capacity of 40 Gb. Recently I changed from XP Home to XP
Professional edition. Could I have done something wrong when
installing this upgade which has affected the stated hard drive
capacity.

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Request for Question Clarification by endo-ga on 28 Nov 2004 04:23 PST

Hi,

It sounds as if you have just filled the space on your hard-drive.

Try TreeSize to find out where the space went.

Treesize
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

Please let me know how it works for you.

Thanks.
endo

This is only a guess on my part, but you may have partitioned the hard
drive incorrectly.  A partition is like a wall that can block off a
certain ammount of space on your hard drive.  If you reformatted your
hard drive, which is often the case when changing OS's, you may have
inadvertantly partitioned off 4GB rather than 40GB.  The easiest
solution for this problem is to put in your Windows install disk into
your CD-ROM drive and see if it tells you there's unparitioned space
on the drive.  If this is the case, just partition the space and
format it.  That would leave you with 2 seperate logical drives, but
you would at least have the space back.  If indeed that is your
problem.