incorrect harddrive size

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Femke

Two years ago a restore disc of someone else's computer was used on mine.
Apparantly this was a fatal error since now my computer thinks its harddrive
is 20 gigs instead of 8. I can't scan it ( I've tried this with several
programs), and I can't defrag. It simply errors out. It is now basically
acting like a flat planet: files tend to drop off when they come to the end.
Apart from this, I have to scrub it every few months because it starts
acting weird. This might be as a result of my not being able to defrag. I
have tried scrubbing it several times with a 'clean' installation disc but
to no avail. It always picks up the incorrect harddrive size through BIOS.
Could someone please tell me how to deal with this problem? I am sure that
if I would understand BIOS a bit better I could fix it, but I find it hard
to get good information on this peticular issue.
Any and every suggestion is more than welcome.
 
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Two years ago a restore disc of someone else's computer was used on mine.
Apparantly this was a fatal error since now my computer thinks its harddrive
is 20 gigs instead of 8. I can't scan it ( I've tried this with several
programs), and I can't defrag. It simply errors out. It is now basically
acting like a flat planet: files tend to drop off when they come to the end.
Apart from this, I have to scrub it every few months because it starts
acting weird. This might be as a result of my not being able to defrag. I
have tried scrubbing it several times with a 'clean' installation disc but
to no avail. It always picks up the incorrect harddrive size through BIOS.
Could someone please tell me how to deal with this problem? I am sure that
if I would understand BIOS a bit better I could fix it, but I find it hard
to get good information on this peticular issue.
Any and every suggestion is more than welcome.
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Have you gone to the manufacturers site and downloaded their software for
the drive? There should be a program to do what they call a lowlevel format
of the drive to reset things to factory specs.
 
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Have you gone to the manufacturers site and downloaded their software for
the drive? There should be a program to do what they call a lowlevel format
of the drive to reset things to factory specs.
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And after formating run the manufacturers diagnostics program. It sounds
like your hard drive could be dying. The manufacturers diagnostics
always seems to be more reliable than the windows version for finding flaws.
 
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