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Hard drive conpacity change?
« on: August 11, 2007, 03:34:40 PM »
Recently my old computer had a issue, (The motherboard got fried) but that isn't the point. My brother said he will fix it up by lending me a spare motherboard he has, but first because my C drive was full of trash, and some viruses I told him he can re-format the drive. My computer is old, so now to the problem, I know he has many other hard drives in his little work station, and my original hard drive is a 12 gigabytes (Which isn't much in todays standards) but when i came to check it out recently he claims that for some reason the computer detects it as a 1 gigabyte hard drive. Now i'm not sure if that is even possible. I think he switched my hard drive with one of his other ones. I would question him, but everytime i did in the past he always brings up the "who knows more about computer speech" So before i do question him i want to comfirm that if this can really happen. So to refresh what my question is: is it possible that a computer can detect my 12 gigabyte hard drive as a 1 gigabyte? (No other factors happen to the hard drive it was just reformatted)

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    Re: Hard drive conpacity change?
    « Reply #1 on: August 11, 2007, 03:43:11 PM »
    Did he create any partitions on the drive? Is the drive size as displayed in windows or the bios?
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    Re: Hard drive conpacity change?
    « Reply #2 on: August 11, 2007, 03:46:07 PM »
    Currently on windows98 on C drives it says 1 gig compacity.

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      Re: Hard drive conpacity change?
      « Reply #3 on: August 11, 2007, 03:47:17 PM »
      What does bios show?
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      Re: Hard drive conpacity change?
      « Reply #4 on: August 11, 2007, 03:49:53 PM »
      dunno, my computer is still at his work station under some mataince. I am currently using one he is lending me.

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        Re: Hard drive conpacity change?
        « Reply #5 on: August 11, 2007, 03:53:25 PM »
        When you get the computer back, check in bios. If he has created partitions, the first one could be 1 gig. But windows will show a different HD for each partition.
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        Re: Hard drive conpacity change?
        « Reply #6 on: August 11, 2007, 04:05:02 PM »
        Ok, but is it really possible for the computer to read the hard drive compacity differently?