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I recently had my system crash and was beyond all known help to repair. I
ended up formatting the drive which started with 14 GB and once reformatted
it shows only 2 GB of storage space. I have talked with a few IT
porfessional who have told me that I can use Windows XP to reformat the drive
again and that should show the unused 12 GB partition that was lost when I
formatted the drive. When I attempted to do this I was unsuccessful, and
would like some guidance on how to do this. The system is current using 128
MB ram, and a Western Digital standard Hard Disk.
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