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233532 2004-05-02 01:01:00 I have an 80gb western digital hard drive which was partitioned as a C: & D: drive with XP OS.
I got a virus and finally deleted all partitions.
I now find that fdisk comes up with 10781mb disk size which I suppose is a 10gb drive.
Anyone know why, and how to change it to 80gb?
I have no jumpers on drive, making it the single master.
Thanks Guys!
arjay (1202)
233533 2004-05-02 01:31:00 easiest way is to use Partition Magic kiwibeat (304)
233534 2004-05-02 02:43:00 Which fdisk are you using? Use the ME bootdisk from here (www.24by7.ca) as it does partitions larger than 60Gig.

May pay to read up [url=http://fdisk.radified.com/fdisk_partition.htm]here[/url as it has a great explanation on using fdisk if you are interested..
Pheonix (280)
233535 2004-05-02 02:46:00 That reading site is here (fdisk.radified.com) (oops, sorry about above post :8} Pheonix (280)
233536 2004-05-02 04:41:00 Thanks Pheonix, I will try your suggestion of different fdisk.
Arjay
arjay (1202)
233537 2004-05-02 05:53:00 Thanks Pheonix, the ME fdisk did the trick...Much appreciated..Arjay arjay (1202)
233538 2004-05-02 10:13:00 YOu have this sorted so that's good -- but I am not sure why you wanted to or needed to use DOS fdisk when XP has a partitioning option near the start of a new install? You can delete or make what ever new partitions you need. JohnD (509)
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