Problem formatting with ASRock motherboards

[chris301up]

I don't remember if a ddo was put onto the drive.

I have tried to download DiskWizard floppy version but have not been able to do so yet.

If I try to format my 80gb hard disk drive it reports as being only 10,031 mb??

Help !!

[Electric Bill]

You could low level format (zero) the drive with Sea Tools, DBAN or Kill Disk DOS freeware.
Then you should be able to format any way you want.

Bill

[curlysir]

Have you tried deleting the Partition and then recreating and formatting? Or will it not let you do that either?

I also have found Partition Magic to be a very useful tool. I also have Partition Commander but prefer Partition Magic.

[CMB]

Typically an 80gb drive is actually 74gb, and fdisk can be -64gb under-reporting, so could show ~10gb.
What does your bios report the size as ?