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08-28-2007
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| | pc sees half of hard drive only 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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08-28-2007
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| | Re: pc sees half of hard drive only 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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08-28-2007
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| | Re: pc sees half of hard drive only 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 news:0g5Bi.101862$rX4.14148@xxxxxx Quote: > 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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