Re: (OT) Help!! – Lost Gb’s during Hard Drive format!!

["egelbeertje" <r_d_k@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Martin,

Have a look at your bios settings, it could be the hd settings are on=20
Auto (which on older motherboards can create wrong sector/heads=20
setting if the disk is not recognised correctly)
Try using the USER settings with the correct head/sector table from=20
your specific disk.

rgds Rob.

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "magnatizerr" <magnatizerr@t...>
wrote:
> Can anybody help - please!!!
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> I've just formatted a 160Gb hard drive using Partition Magic (NTFS)=20
> and as usual on start up you notice a drop in available Gb space=20
> (approx 155Gb accessible).  However, after I suffered an=20
> installation problem (motherboard went down) I decided to reformat=20
> again. I used exactly the same process (Partition Magic =96 NTFS)
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> this time I only have 127Gb available =96 it doesn't matter what I=20
do,=20
> reformat, new partitions, re-size space, I can not seem to discover=20
> where the missing Gb's have gone??!?!=20
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> Any suggestions would be most appreciated!!!!!
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> Many thanks in advance.
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> Martin