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  1. Intown

    38 gigs of 40 gig Hard Drive

    So I can do that without wiping the hard drive. never had to do one so it is new to me, I downloaded the maxblast and the powermax, when put onto a diskette they make bootable disc....I also downloaded the tech procedure on both programs....But worst comes to worse, at least I will learn...
  2. Intown

    38 gigs of 40 gig Hard Drive

    Ok so I went and got the Maxblast 3 it will do both fat and ntfs, It will ask you what OS you will be installing and do its thing... I looked around on the site to find out if I do it after I fdisk and format and then on restart boot to maxblast disc first... But could not find any info..TT4U...
  3. Intown

    38 gigs of 40 gig Hard Drive

    Ok So I am reading just over 40,000,000,000 @38.2 Gigs so yes I am close I would think. I am still getting slower everytime I format the hard drive.Now I have scandisc once or twice during the fdisk and format but it comes up with no errors,the stop error I get is bad check sum and has to do...
  4. Intown

    38 gigs of 40 gig Hard Drive

    I do a standard format by fdisk delete part. etc.... Now I was told about a low format and told it works but to never do it and also only older bois are able to do so. How do I find out if I can do a low format and how to go about doing a low format...?
  5. Intown

    38 gigs of 40 gig Hard Drive

    Ok so I have a maxtor 40 Gig 5400RPM hard drive that has been wiped a few times and everytime the size of hard drive gets smaller. It is saying it is only 38 gigs now. when I first got it it was reading 40.2 gigs. so the Q is why is it doing this to me and how can I get the hole thing back? I...

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