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I'm having a heck of a time shutting down Xp. When I click "Shut Down Computer" it takes forever for the options to come up. So I usually have to do Ctrl Alt Delete and press shutdown. Even when I press this, sometimes it just wont shutdown. It will look busy, but it will just stay there and wont go to the blue shutdown screen. When it does go to the blue shutdown screen it will usually take forever to shutdown or it will be fast and normal. Its very odd. Sometimes this problem forces me to shutdown the computer manually, by pressing the button. When i do this I sometimes see files that i know I deleted before and they cant seem to go away. For instance, I deleted some Skins for counter strike, but they showed back up on restart. And when i deleted them they were still in the game. One last thing, It says my Hd has 112 gb, when I know I bought a 120 gb one..So...any help? I really need some before I go to Microsoft with it. I've done virus scans and everything appears to be clean, I just think my Hd may be corrupted.. :unsure:

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  k22 said:
120GB unformatted, 112GB is the correct amount after file system formatting

boot up the computer and check the event viewer for errors/warnings at shutdown and post them here

start, run, eventvwr

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Being formated or not has nothing to do with it! The drive capacity does not change in real terms!

The best way to determine your hard drive's capacity is to open My Computer, right-click on your hard drive, and choose Properties. In Windows XP, you'll get a window that lists the actual capacity of the drive in bytes. This will also list the capacity in gigabytes (GB), though there isn't always agreement on what constitutes a gigabyte.

Let's take a real-world example. Windows XP reports that my PC's hard drive has a capacity of 60,019,441,664 bytes. (The drive holds more information, but some of the drive space is taken up by the file system to keep track of the data.) The same Windows screen reports that this represents 55.9GB. Yet the manufacturer insists that my system is equipped with a 60GB drive. Where did my missing 4GB go?

It all depends on how you count. Most definitions state that a gigabyte is 2 to the power of 30, or 1,073,741,824 bytes. Divide the hard drive's reported capacity in bytes by this number, and you get 55.8974609375, which Windows rounds to 55.9. Most hard drive manufacturers define a gigabyte as a billion bytes, however, which rounds to 60GB. You might argue that this is an inflated figure, but because all drive manufacturers follow the same practice, you can still use the capacity figures to compare drives.

Edit: Thinking about the unformatted and formatted scenario there may be a small difference but then you can not use an unformatted drive!!

In other words this is inconsequential!

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