My Hard Drive Thinks its only 70Mb big.

[Whitestar]

I had a 4Gb HD. I tried to use it as my slave drive but it wouldnt read. When i used the hard drive as a master i found that it had windows 2000 on it, but i couldnt get to command prompt to format the drive. So using DOS 5 i used the Fdisk function and wiped the Non-dos partition and now the HD is only 70Mb big. Is there anyway to correct this problem and get the HD back to 4Gb.


THNX for anyones help.

[Ioman]

Originally posted by Whitestar
I had a 4Gb HD. I tried to use it as my slave drive but it wouldnt read. When i used the hard drive as a master i found that it had windows 2000 on it, but i couldnt get to command prompt to format the drive. So using DOS 5 i used the Fdisk function and wiped the Non-dos partition and now the HD is only 70Mb big. Is there anyway to correct this problem and get the HD back to 4Gb.


THNX for anyones help.

hmmm sounds like you need to create a new partition. With Windows 2000 you can create the partitionin NTFS format or FAT32. It sound sto me like you have two partitions on there. Maybe one at 39.3 gigs and the other at 70mb? So when you deleted the larger partition it left the smaller one?