[X4U] LaCie Hard Drive problem

Neil Laubenthal neil at laubenthal.net
Sun Aug 7 16:31:47 PDT 2005


At 21:50 +0100  on 8/7/05, eleventhvolume wrote:


>  > Have you tried completely reformatting your 40 GB LaCie drive?
>Sorry for the probably stupid question, but how would I go about
>reformatting the drive? How is that different from erasing? I've zeroed the
>disc, but it continues to declare a total capacity of 28gb rather than the
>40gb I've had available these past three years.
>
>All the best, Colin.
>
Run Disk Utility . . .select it and erase it. If you create 2 
partitions and format them . . then change back to one . . . you'll 
recreate all the partition maps and should get the full 40 GB back.


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