Hard disk failure

[rupang818]

Hi
I bought a 4.32G Fujitsu hard drive from Ebay
(4.32G because I only needed it for one purpose: playing an old school game)
Anyway, I installed the Windows 2000 first on the hard drive. But unfortunately, the game didn't play on 2000.
So I decided to install the WINDOWS XP. And guess what? My hard disk shrinked to 2.12G!
I tried virus check, bad sector check, clean up and everything I could, but I couldn't fix it...
Can someone help me out please?

[merlin_2]

http://www.windowsreinstall.com/windows2000/installoldhdd/multipage1.htm

[rupang818]

oh btw, I formateed with both NTFS and FAT..
Does that help at all?

[merlin_2]

no >>just remove the o/s you dont need........win2k/winxp does not like old games much unless you use this >>>http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/16-bit-MS-DOS-Subsystem-Error-Quick-Fix.shtml

[rupang818]

I did all the steps described on ur first link...
maybe 4 times...maybe i should be more specific.,.
the game is called "PUMP, the fusion" which is a DDR game.... it came out around 2001...

[merlin_2]

Do you have a win98 boot disk.....load it......and format the drive......format c:........now fdisk it.....and shutdown/restart  the pc.<leave the cdrom install  in drive  and  load the os you need / win 2k or winxp......

[Raptor]

So I decided to install the WINDOWS XP. And guess what? My hard disk shrinked to 2.12G!

Repartition the HDD.

I do not know why you would bother installing Window XP on a 4.32GB HDD.