My hard drive has shrunk by 25Gb cos of formatting,y?

[nickskr2002]

Hi

I had windows2000 installed until i contracted a virus and chose to format the hard drive which is 27Gb. The only way i could format was to install windows98 over the top and format in the process.
When i had finished i found that my hard drive had shrunk to only 2Gb - i think this might be something to do with partitioning? I have now reinstalled windows2000 but the hard drive is still only 2 gb's! how can i get my full drive back?!?! do i need to run something called FDISK? please help me!
Many Thanks
N.Sampson

 

[gambler1621]

Did you format in Fat16? If so, reformat in either Fat32 or NTFS. You might also try "writing zeros" or low level formatting.

 

[dumdum]

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[wolluf]

Did you remove virus? If you use disk partitioning/format tools available with win2k install you should be ok, IF you've remove viruses completely. You don't need fdisk/win98 - don't really understand why you used them.

 

[paparazi]

Seems to me (to be sure) fdisk, repartitian and do a low level format then reinstall windows. Martin Just trying to help, sometimes falling short, I am only human after all.