Seeing info of the HD while in DOS

[javierdl]

How can I see info about the HD while in DOS?
I am about to reinstall Windows, and this HD is supposed to be 30Gb, but according to Magic Partition & FDISK the HD is only 9.797Mb!
I don't get it!
How can this be?

Thanks in advance,

JDL

http://www.sunnylandbaja.com

 

[javierdl]

Additional info:

The weird thing is that in the Partition Info it says:
Total Physical Sectors: 20,065,122 (9,797.4 Mb)

Btw, the HD is 20Gb, not 30Gb, my mistake.

So why can't I see nor have access to the rest of the HD?

JDL

http://www.sunnylandbaja.com

 

[ski]

How much is recognized in BIOS?

 

[javierdl]

Well, the mystery was solved by someone from another forum:

" Nothing strange there. Sectors do not equal bytes.
[9,797.4 * (1024^2)] bytes / 20,065,122 sectors = 512 bytes/sector. Fairly standard.
You have yourself a 10GB drive, my friend. "

I did confirm this. Someone must have changed the HD at some point.

JDL

http://www.sunnylandbaja.com