hard drive not registering capacity

[confuzzled0411]

my 120 gig hard drive is telling me i have 1.98 gig hard drive space total. i reformatted the hard drive again last night to relieve my computer of the many viruses that were bogging it down, and now i have this big problem. 118 gig of my hard disk space has disappeared. WHY! please help? thanks!

 

[shrubble]

Did you delete ALL partitions before you did the reformat/reinstall?

If you can, hook the drive up as a slave to another PC and see what that PC says you have (it may show up as 2 logical drives if you missed a partition during reinstall). While it's in the other machine, you can also reformat it (right click it), it's a lot faster then when you do it with the OS disk.

Hope this helps!

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[cdogg]

1.98 gigabytes, eh? Sounds like you accidently formatted the hard drive using FAT16 which is limited to 2GB per partition.

What tool are you using to format the drive? One that actually came with it, or Windows format utility? If it is Windows, make sure you're using one from Win98 or later and enabling large disk support (which gives you access to FAT32).


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[AckNack]

What manufacturer and model? What OS?

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