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Bad partition/hard drive trouble

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Lupinicus

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I have a 80 GB Maxtor hard drive that I am using as a secondary storage drive (mainly mp3s). I recently installed Windows XP and during the set-up I tried to convert that drive to NTFS (since it was FAT32). During the conversion, something happened, unfortunately I cannot remember what. At the time I thought everything went fine, but after the rest of the installation, I looked at the drive and it was suddenly only 30 GB in size and had nothing on it.

I downloaded several data recovery programs and they were able to find the majority of my files. However, since they were all demos/trials, they wouldn't actually recover the data. So, I gave up on trying to recover anything, and just formatted the drive, thinking that would fix everything. Unfortunately, it remains at 30 GB. What can I do to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance.
 
Are you installint XP to this drive? If so, put the Windows XP disc in and boot your computer. Perform a clean installation. At the partition screen, press L to delete your partition and confirm it. Repeat with any other partitions on the drive. Then, create a partiton from the free space at maximum size (which should be 70-something GB).

If you are not installing XP on the drive, download Maxtor MaxBlast III to partition and format the drive. It will allow you to create a bootable diskette from which you can start your computer and create/delete and format partitions.
 
Win2k/xp only allow you to make 30 gig fat32 partitions. They want to force you away from fat32. So whatever was there before the conversion is gone.
 
This hard drive is just a storage drive, not my main drive so I wasn't installing windows xp on it. Also, I know that my files are gone, I'm not worried about that. I just want all my drive space back. I'll go try what elzmaddy suggested. Thanks a bunch.
 
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