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Win98 Reports HDD Size Incorrectly
Name: Dave Date: December 11, 2003 at 11:07:02 Pacific OS: Windows 98 SE CPU/Ram: P4 1.g Ghz/512 Ram
Comment:
I have a laptop wirth a 30 GB drive. windows is suddenly only showing a 4 GB Drive.
I have ran the anti-virus, nothing. I have run scandisk ...no help. I have also run Fdisk /MBR ...didn't work.
Name: Don Miller Date: December 11, 2003 at 11:10:38 Pacific
Reply:
When you boot, what size shows in the BIOS? If it's a 30gb and properly identified there, then the partition table is likely damaged. If you boot with a dos bootdisk, what does FDISK show for partition sizes (choice 4)?
Don
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Response Number 2
Name: Dave Date: December 11, 2003 at 12:00:17 Pacific
Reply:
BIOS shows 30GB Fdisk shows 30GB
Windows shows 4GB(Used to show full size)
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Response Number 3
Name: Petit Jean Date: December 11, 2003 at 12:31:17 Pacific
Reply:
Scandisk can help you find back the correct hard drive size.Run it from Windows.Good luck.
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Response Number 4
Name: Dan Penny Date: December 11, 2003 at 14:01:07 Pacific
Reply:
If scandskw or scandisk isn't doing it for you, get Drive Rescue. (It's free.) There's a windows version and a dos version. If you can't find it on the web, there's a copy in my webspace;
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