I bought an 80 gig maxtor hard drive, for a family computer, we had to erase it and put windows xp 5 times already, but now when we check its properties it says it only has 31.48 gigs. is there a way to get it to be an 80 g hard drive agian or do i have to buy a new one
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Jump to Posthow did u erase the drive, is the 31.48 the available space or the total size of the drive
Jump to Postokay do exactly as i say
1) Right click on "My Computer" and choose Manage
2) Go into Disk Management (Under the storage category)
3)Tell us what you see
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