Help required on how to format a disk drive to retrieve lost Gigabytes

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  1. glyndwrw

    glyndwrw Member

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    I have a 160 Gig disk drive that I recently formatted but it is now showing as 32Gig. I know this can be reformatted back to 160 gig but I cannot remember how to do it.
    Can anyone help me please?
     
    glyndwrw, Jan 16, 2009
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    sounds like the 32gig limit jumper is in place. look at the top of the drive for that info.
     
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    misinformation removed
     
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    dailun, what os would that be as i used win98 to partition my 250gig into a 50(c:drive) & 200(d:drive). also used win98 to partition a 350gig as 1 partition?
     
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    Many thanks DDP it's as you suggested the 32Gig jumper was set.
    Thanks also to Dailun for replying.
     
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    Glad it's working. DDPs explanation was much more reasonable.
     
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    dailun, original xp without sp couldn't partition past 137gig. i've done a 350gig partition with fat 32, my current 160gig hd is partitioned with 40 & 120 with fat 32 & my new sata2 250gig is partitioned 50(fat32) & 200(ntfs).
     
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    I conceed. My misinformation will be removed.
     
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