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Restoring Hard drive to original capacity? Additional info?

Format Hard drive to original capacity ?

I recently formatted a hard drive that is 20 Gig and after the format it states that its capacity is now 2 Gig what do i have to do to it to get it back to its original size; I have formatted it again with no success this process was done on a P4 2 Ghz machine and it was converted to the NTFS file system whilst installing XP Pro.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    You need to delete the partion completly and repartion it using the full 20GB. this can be done using the windows install disk. Boot to the disk, may differ depending on what OS youhave

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    you should get a clean HDD in selection to the damaged down one & deploy a sparkling OS. Then use USMT for procuring your previous settings again in case you want. Restoring has failed so that you want to manually set up the classes & information from the backupchronic you've.

  • 1 decade ago

    Check the BIOS settings.....Might want totry a BIOS update also....sounds like you have the I/O mode set wrong...

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