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**Help Formatting HD**

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xclr8ted

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Im trying to clean install Xp, when Im done, the 60gig drive reads as a 2 gig drive, how do I fix/format it so it reads as a 60gig?
 
QUESTIONS:

- WHAT tells you the drive is only 2Gb? If you actually managed to install WindowsXP it would be impossible to fit in a 2Gb partition. XP requires around 4 - 6Gb. It would never fit on a 2Gb partition so when you started it must have been larger.

- How "clean" was this install? What the drive unpartitioned when you started?

- If this was an unpartitioned drive when you installed XP, then XP would have prompted you to confirm the size of the partition before it created and formatted it. What size was the partition when you installed it?

- Does BIOS see the drive as a 60Gb drive? If it doesn't then Windows can't see it either. You must get it fixed in BIOS and re-install Windows.

- Open the Disk Manager in Windows (right click My Computer, Manage, Disk Management). Does the drive show up as a 60Gb drive? Is there any unpartitioned space?
 
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