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posted by brs48 on Jan 03, 2008


Just installed new hard drive, formatted and put operating system on it. Windows does not recognize the full capacity of the hard drive. The partiotn was formatted with the ntfs.
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posted on Feb 13, 2008
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mabe u have many partitions and they were set hidden or unactive...go controlle panel..administartive tools, device managment or somthing like that..i the diagnostik tools take the 3rd option frome the second 1...u will find ur hidden partitions u can set it active and reboot evry thing wiill be ok.......but if u dont see them u can dowlaod any live cd like nothon ghost or any partition live cd and boot frome it u will find the solution thre sure
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