2010-08-30, 02:28 PM
Devil Wrote:Yeah that's also possible, had it too once (lost 200GB on 1TB HD), but then the data itself gets erased, and you have a lot of (more) free space available.
No, bad RAM can result in the disk actually reporting the wrong size. I didn't lose any data, it was blank already. It just couldn't properly gauge how much space it had because the RAM was wonky.
I actually replaced the drive thinking it was hopelessly corrupt before realizing it was the RAM, and as soon as I replaced the RAM the HD reported correctly again and worked perfectly.
Now running a memory test is pretty much my first step for misbehaving machines. A litle bad RAM can make pretty much anything happen.