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Hard drive gone
I have a Maxtor 300 GB hard drive that I formatted, installed Vista, and
later decided the support just wasn't there for even basic drivers that I needed and went back to Windows XP. Unfortunately I have not been able to get any use out of this drive afterward as it is now only showing 31.49GB no matter what I do, be it formatting or anything. Luckily I had a backup 120MB Maxtor hard drive that I am operating from now. The problem is, back in XP, both drives show up in BIOS, Device manager, and My computer manager, however in all three, the 300GB device that I had installed Vista on still only shows 31.49GB and I cannot figure out how to get full use out of it again. I've tried all different utilities, low level formats, complete formats, yet nothing increases the amount of space on the hard drive. I've tried installing OS (both Vista and XP) on the culprit drive and they both only show 31.4GB. Is it possible that the installation of Vista has permanently ruined the hard drive? |