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Hd showing smaller size

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by caraloca, 2005/01/11.

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  1. 2005/01/11
    caraloca

    caraloca Inactive Thread Starter

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    I was trying to prepare my Hd to format and re-install win xp pro using one of the utilities from seagate like I always do, the utility is call disk wizard.
    By mistake trying to make a partition I click in something that made my hard drive smaller, now is only 33000mb (33gb) instead of the 80000mb (80GB).
    I saw in the bios and say 33gb also when I start the win install say 33gb.
    I tried everything to restore it using this utility from seagate by I can not do it.
    I had this Hd for long time and it always show me the real size until now that I played with.
    Would you please help me with this?.
    Thank you beforehand for your help and time
    Art
     
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  2. 2005/01/12
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    Art, try this ....

    Get hold of a Win98 Boot Disk and boot the computer from it. Use FDISK to delete all partitions and reformat.
     
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  4. 2005/01/12
    caraloca

    caraloca Inactive Thread Starter

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    i solved my problem, I don't know how, I was just playing with the utility from seagate and I don't know what i did but I opened in the bios and I saw my hd 80GB.
    Then i tried with windows and it showed me the 80gb too.
    Thank you for your help.
     
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  5. 2005/01/13
    PeteC

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    Glad to hear the problem is solved - thanks for posting back.
     
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