Re: Reformatting

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main advice, is that since your system has nothing important on it, you
shouldn't be so hesitant about trying things. the more things you try,
the more chance of finding a solution. The way you'll solve this
problem may well be to delete the partition and try to create it again
a different way. Experiment, think of diff things to try and try them
without any fear. The worst thing that could happen, is you could
format your HDD ;)

What HDD do you have? (make and model). I ask this because perhaps
there is a specific issue regarding it and a 15GB lmiit if wrongly
configured.

You could ignore all warnings given by partition magic since you have
nothing to lose. Start partition magic, and look at how it describes
the hard drive. It will tell you the capacity of the hard drive, and
the size of the partition within the hard drive.

Does partition magic report that you have a 60GB Hard drive, with a
15GB partition?
Or does it mistakenly report that you have a 15GB Hard drive?

If it reports that you have a 60GB HDD with a 15GB partition, then
there will be an option to *resize* the 15GB partition to 60GB. You
would right click the 1GB patritino and click resize and enter '60' and
click ok.

If it reports that you have a 15GB hard drive then it's most probably a
HDD issue.


note-(I don't think it'd be a BIOS issue, i've never experienced the
BIOS making an error like that. With the BIOS I've found that it either
detects the big HDD or not. if the hard drive is too big to be
recognised, it just doesn't recognise it. I've never seen it limit the
HDD size. As a last resort if many many other things don't work, then i
wouldn't rule out flashing the BIOS)

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