hard drive problem

ad3eek · 29 Aug 2007 at 20:38

i have a major issue with my hd and not sure how to fix it,

right 2 days ago i started to reformat my computer using vista oem 64bit dvd, i later realised after everything that i tryed to get it work that it must be just broken somehow (the disk that is) so i dug out my xp pro disk which worked fine, then the probs started i managed to install it on my hd but its is saying that it is only a 30 gig hd which its is infact an 80 gig hd, i have tryed to format it - it wont, i have tryed the fdisk command which it says it isnt a command and ive also checked the partition in disk management so can somone please tell me what i should do to sort it as ime goin mad not nowing how to sort it.

ad3eek · 30 Aug 2007 at 10:56

anybody got an idea of what i can do

frying_pan_cat · 30 Aug 2007 at 11:13

Find the disc checker from the hdd manufacturer and try running that on the hdd. A similar thing happened to my mates hdd when it said the size was 7GB when it was actually 500GB, turned out the disc was broken so got it rma'd

swinnie · 30 Aug 2007 at 11:16

It could be that the XP Pro disk thinks it is partitioned.

Try using a boot disk and erasing all partitions etc... backing up data first

ad3eek · 30 Aug 2007 at 16:26

for some reason i cant use my floppy drive as it seems not to be working is there any other option

frying_pan_cat · 30 Aug 2007 at 19:21

I think you can just load it to a cd and boot form that