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why would my harddrive be smaller after reformatting vista?

regularly, i have a 160 gig hard drive on my PC. I just reformatted it using vista recovery disks and now it is saying my hard drive can only hold 40 gigs. Does anyone know why this is happening?

Well obviously you didnt reformat the whole thing. Maybe you reformatted only a partition, you created a partition, or deleted a partition. In order for an operating system to see/use your hard drive, the entire thing has to be formatted. Any part that isn’t, is not usable by the operating system.

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  1. Well obviously you didnt reformat the whole thing. Maybe you reformatted only a partition, you created a partition, or deleted a partition. In order for an operating system to see/use your hard drive, the entire thing has to be formatted. Any part that isn’t, is not usable by the operating system.
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