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Midnite · 07-15-2007, 07:13 AM

My friend is having trouble formatting his hard drive. It seems pretty simple except for the fact that the hard drive isnt reading for 160 gigs (which is what it is), whenever trying to reinstall windows it recognizes the drive as just 32 gigs.

I came over to his place cause i thought he was just messing up, but no, its reading as 32. It had a 32 gig partition, deleted it, and unpartitioned space is raeding as 32.

used partition magic, etc, they all read the total drive as just 32 gigs, unpartitioned. making new partitions cant exceed the 32 anyway.

How do i get it back?

07-15-2007, 07:13 AM	#1 (permalink)
Midnite Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: USA-NJ Posts: 13 OS: WinXP OS2	Partition reads smaller than actual drive My friend is having trouble formatting his hard drive. It seems pretty simple except for the fact that the hard drive isnt reading for 160 gigs (which is what it is), whenever trying to reinstall windows it recognizes the drive as just 32 gigs. I came over to his place cause i thought he was just messing up, but no, its reading as 32. It had a 32 gig partition, deleted it, and unpartitioned space is raeding as 32. used partition magic, etc, they all read the total drive as just 32 gigs, unpartitioned. making new partitions cant exceed the 32 anyway. How do i get it back?