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Help required on how to format a disk drive to retrieve lost Gigabytes
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glyndwrw
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_ 		16. January 2009 @ 12:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have a 160 Gig disk drive that I recently formatted but it is now showing as 32Gig. I know this can be reformatted back to 160 gig but I cannot remember how to do it.
Can anyone help me please?
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ddp
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_ 		16. January 2009 @ 12:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
sounds like the 32gig limit jumper is in place. look at the top of the drive for that info.
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dailun
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_ 		16. January 2009 @ 12:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
misinformation removed
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ddp
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_ 		16. January 2009 @ 12:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
dailun, what os would that be as i used win98 to partition my 250gig into a 50(c:drive) & 200(d:drive). also used win98 to partition a 350gig as 1 partition?
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dailun
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_ 		16. January 2009 @ 13:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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glyndwrw
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_ 		16. January 2009 @ 13:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Many thanks DDP it's as you suggested the 32Gig jumper was set.
Thanks also to Dailun for replying.
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dailun
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_ 		16. January 2009 @ 13:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Glad it's working. DDPs explanation was much more reasonable.
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ddp
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_ 		16. January 2009 @ 19:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
dailun, original xp without sp couldn't partition past 137gig. i've done a 350gig partition with fat 32, my current 160gig hd is partitioned with 40 & 120 with fat 32 & my new sata2 250gig is partitioned 50(fat32) & 200(ntfs).
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dailun
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_ 		16. January 2009 @ 19:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I conceed. My misinformation will be removed.
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