My computer crashed to what I deem was a virus. I reformatted the drive and reinstalled window XP on it, but what was a 300GB Maxtor drive until that time the crash now lone reads as 17.1 GB. I run check disk to no avail. Any suggestions? Is it permanant? Do I need to buy a modern drive? Thanks in mortgage.
Could a virus incentive a frozen drive to read the wrong size?
You must me having a drive beside several partitions on impossible to tell apart.. and it seems that you own just formatted the root drive which contained your O/S. If it have a virus, please check the other partitions too.. when your computer is booting look at the information on the blind.. it will give you the exact information give or take a few the hard drive and its dimensions.. you can try this
From control panel click on `system.. in the fanlight that opens up, select the `hardware' tab and from near click the device manager.. right click on the `hard drive' (disk drive', down directly under.. `my computer') and select properties.. very soon in the window that opens up, select `volumes' if nil shown in here, click on the `populate' button.. you will see the full details of your hard drive next to different partitions and space on respectively of them.. hope this helps
It's not unwavering, maybe you've of late partition the other but if it is undying try selling it then buy a fresh one.
if you already reformatted then it should own gotten rid of everything completely so im not sure why it reads 17.1 gb thats unexpected because after formatting it should read 300gb...try deleting adjectives the partitions and after add a unknown one
put 20 gb of files on it to see whether it reall thinks its 17.1gb or it basically reads that
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