Help!!! My Hard Drive Is Messed Up!!!!

[nobitacu]

Ok, This problem has costed me endless times of sitting in front of my computer, and lot's of my own time.... But I just can't figure it out!!!!!!!! My friend also has the same problem...

Ok, here the problem, I tried to reformat my HDs, both on raid, but my friend don't use raid. Anyways, After I format them, and when I check the disc space in dos for both of the HDs, it came out something like 514,989,982 MB Which is like 514 gigs. I've done the format twice already for both HDs, and it didn't fix the problem. I was using Format C:

And without fixing this problem, I can't install windows or anything. Does someone know of this problem and how to solve it???? I really need help on this one... I've spend too much time on it already...

Please tell me what I can do to try to fix this problem!!!!!!

Ming

 

[Maddman]

You will get a better response in this topic rather then the other topic

 

[nobitacu]

sorry, didn't see this one.

Thanks

 

[nobitacu]

Ok, I know that you can also do formatting for the HD by using the windows xp cd, but the thing is, it never came up to ask me if I want to format my drive.... Anyone know how to do this? like is there another way to use the windows xp's formatting program to format my HDs? Maybe that will fix it... For some odd reason, all other formatting ways just won't do it right... always still giving me 114 Gigs of space and stuff... Please help.

 

[Cooler666]

in Windows XP setup delete the partition and then you can format it

 

[Xaotic]

If I'm reading correctly, you're trying to put 2 HDDs into a new box and use RAID 0. Since there are some problems occurring, try this first. Take the drives off the RAID controller and place them on the IDE controller. FDISK and delete the partitions, do not create partitions and fdisk /mbr. Shut down and move the unpartitioned drives back to the RAID controller. Reboot and go into the RAID BIOS. Configure the disks and stripe sizes that you will need, as well as selecting the options to make the RAID 0 drives bootable. Format the disks, if that option is selectable through the RAID BIOS(it should be). In the motherboard BIOS, select to boot from the RAID controller rather than the HDD, you will need either FDD or CDROM first depending on the OS you're installing. Next, start the install process on the OS, having taken any other HDDs off the other controllers first. If you're using XP, 2K, or NT make sure to load the controller drivers during the initial phases of setup.