What happened was my Internet services were threatening to suspend us because they KEPT receiving complaints about bulk email coming from one of the TWO computers in the house. We invited a tech out to our house to clean the computers of any spyware, virus, trojans..even though both computers had no symptoms of infection. The day after he CAME this computer had so many symptoms it was impossible to work on.

Its an HP computer so it has a built in backup that will restore the computer back to factory settings. It would have been just like i bought it brand new. However the backup function did not work and neither did the backup disks it had me MAKE when i first bought it (4yrs ago). Sooooo..i formatted and installed win98 then xp home edition.

Heres my problem....

Before trying to back it up....
The computer had a D:HP_Recovery Drive that was just under 6gb
C: was just under 75gb.

But it shows that i only have the smaller one and i cant find the other larger portion.

I took a screen shot: http://www.geocities.com/chefabbe/scsh.GIF that shows conflicting information. at the top it show C: with the 5G and at the bottom it states disk 0 (c:) has 74.56gb

Theres nothing below cdrom 0.

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to solve this problem. Im finding it really hard only functioning on 5gb.

Try right clicking 'disk management' then 'rescan disks'