Hard Drive Help! 20gig showing up as 1gig! ***problem solved thanks to forcesho***

[RawHotSauce]

I have an IBM Deskstar 20gig ATA/100 hard drive. The problem is i had it partitioned running win 98 planning on installing win2k when i got it on the other partion. Well to make a long story short something went horribly wrong and after re-formatting my hard drive about 3 times it is now only showing up as a 1.1gig hard drive. Is there anyway to completely whipe out all the partions and krap on the hard drive to make it clean again? Any ideas would be appreciated as i really am tired of my slow 8.4 gig hd

 

[Davegod75]

fdisk at the dos prompt. and delete all partitions. make a new one.

or use partition magic

 

[RawHotSauce]

I think i tried that, but i'll give it another go

 

[Vegito]

make sure your bios still sees 20 gigs.


fdisk can't see certain nt partitions... need delpart.exe

link to delpart in middle of link...

btw, ignore the dos 6.0 use win boot disk is fine. and besure to delete and SAVE before exiting

 

[RawHotSauce]

It is like it partially has NTFS on it and part of it doesn't so fdisk is having problems. Fdisk has been locking up when i try to create a new primary partion. I'll go ahead and try out what you said forcesho

 

[RawHotSauce]

Woohooo man thanks, its workin great. forcesho is GOD

 

[Vegito]

no no no, i'm not god, I learn that a few years back from installing NT and couldn't remove it..

its weird how they dont include DELPART with Win9X or something and you gotta go buy partition magic or something..