..continuing..
I tried the "diskette creater" from Hitachi's own site and, it did exactly the same - tried to install to Hard drive. I presume the HDDGuru d/load is taken direct from that link originally, so it is not really a fault of the link here.
I then tried the CD Image (ISO file) from Hitachi, and after burning to disk with Ultra Iso, that booted fine. This is a new version - v2.11.
The Capacity was reported correctly (80GB) in the tool, but I made sure the 'Make Permanent' option was selected anyway and OK'd and exitted.
I went into Setup (BIOS) and checked - it showed the full 80GB. Hurrah!
However, when I did Fdisk and Format again they showed only 10GB!!
When I installed the OS, HDD was again reported in XP as 80GB.
This is all getting very confusing.
Any ideas about the Fdisk discrepancy?
Thanks,
Rab.