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. -- =================================================================== Neil There are only three kinds of stress . . . your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. All of the three are related . . . the key is Jello.