i have a WD800 dive in my system running XP...i was having some troubles with my 120GB drive so i decided to ghost the 60GB content from my primary drive to my WD800...

after fixing the issue with my 120GB drive i proceeded to delete the partition on the WD800 and reformat it as NTFS...when i deleted the partition the drive size now changed from 80GB to somewhere around 312GB...i have tried deleting the partition from in windows...from the XP setup and even from a Win PE disk with partition magic 8...no matter what i do teh drive still insists that it is somewhere around 312GB...

how do i fix the partition size issue? is it a known issue or anything like that??

if you need the error i got while formating it just tell ema nd ill get it...

i dont know how this is possible but i know in some old Quantam Fireball drives some types of formats will cause simmilar issues in drives...

i am a computer technition so dont worry about using technical terms im not easily confused...

when i actually try to format it just gives and error and does not format...

Thanks for any help you may be able to give me.

Brandon

try to erase the MBR.

it is possible that some garbage is in the partition table that shows such partition size, regardless of the actual drive capacity.
As I remember with MHDD U can do it using a simple command.

regards,
pepe