all fixed. whew. in xp right now and used disk management and it showed it
as 300gb drive and allowed me to delete the partition and create a new one
formatted for ntfs the full hard drive. whew!.
"peter" <peter@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Of course you cannot format the drive the OS is on from within that OS.
> You said disk Management shows it as 300gb..........does it show any
> unallocated space?? more than 1 partition??
> what it exactly does it show???
> What version of Vista??
> peter
> "AMD" <d@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ODN1AOe6HHA.5980@xxxxxx Quote:
>> I've got a 300gb ata133 drive as master. I've got several other drives
>> and have windows installed on one. Well, the OS only sees 127gb and it's
>> a 300gb drive. It was working fine before, but now not all is seen.
>> Partition magic 805 says bad on the drive for bad partition info or
>> something. format does not work and pmagic cannot format or create a
>> partition on it or anything.
>> dos format does not work nor does right clicking on the drive and saying
>> format.
>>
>> the disk management in vista also shows it as the 300gb, but it won't let
>> me format it or anything.
>> no messages that help at all as unable to format is all that happens.
>>
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