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800gb hard drive

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my maxtor 160gb hard drive is now showing as 800gb in properties i cant do anything with it with partition magic just shows up as bad tried refomatting but noting seems to work drive works ok but i need to partition it

Name: wanderer
Date: May 5, 2004 at 09:25:35 Pacific

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what does the bios report the drive as? download delpart.exe and wipe the drive. Then start fresh. Sounds like a corrupted file system misreporting size.

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Name: johnr
Date: May 5, 2004 at 09:27:55 Pacific

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Try formatting (fdisk) from DOS - basic boot disk - Partition Manager can cause funny problems so try without it.

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can i format an external drive with fdisk

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You should be able to if you know the correct drive letter.

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Name: wanderer
Date: May 5, 2004 at 21:03:51 Pacific

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fdisk doesn't use drive letters.

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