120 GB Hard drive formatting Problem

[trader18]

I somehow formatted my new IBM hard drive to 33 gb and can't find a way to restore it back to the origanal state, Is there a utility or some way to repair. Thanks very much for any help.

 

[JAZZnSAX]

Partition Magic.

Or, start completely over with a new OS load and (at least under the Win2k Professional installation) you are given the option to create/remove partitions.

 

[wlpsyp]

FDISK

 

[wolluf]

trader18,

Bit more information would be useful (like operating system, how you partitioned it, what filestore, machine spec/age). Eg, 2k & XP have maximum 32GB (very close to your 33GB) size for FAT32 partitions. Some motherboards/bioses have 32GB max disk size they can see (so if they can see larger disks, they appear as 32GB).

Have you checked (either with fdisk - win9x/ME or disk management - 2k/XP) there is unused space? If you want one large partition & mobo/bios supports it, you'll either need to start from scratch (backup, delete existing partition, create new one) or use something like partition magic to extend size of your existing partition.

 

[trader18]

Thanks for all your help, the problem was in the hard drive jumpers, working fine now.

Thanks