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Hard Drive only formats to 1/2 size
Name: mynameissamus Date: February 13, 2004 at 07:53:20 Pacific OS: WIN XP CPU/Ram: 384
Comment:
I have a Maxtor 34GB hard disk and everything was fine until I got the Agobot virus. I decided to just reformat and start over. Everything went fine except that now my hard drive shows only 12.X GB. Windows installed fine anyways and works well but still. I already tried a full low level format and the first time I reformatted I used Partition Magic 8.0 and had only 1 partition.
Name: royn Date: February 13, 2004 at 08:45:35 Pacific
Reply:
Can you see the unallocated space within windows XP. (use the disk manager)
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Response Number 2
Name: mynameissamus Date: February 13, 2004 at 09:20:56 Pacific
Reply:
Yep, there is NO unallocated space.
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Response Number 3
Name: setishock Date: February 13, 2004 at 14:15:39 Pacific
Reply:
Take the maxtor cd and make the diag floppy. Format the drive in fat32. See if it shows a full drive partition. Then use the xp cd to reformat in ntfs.
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