Hard Drive (Help me)

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l WildFire l

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I have a MAXTOR 6LO4OJ2 Hard Drive (40 Gigabytes but it shows 38) And i recently Experienced A power Failure (I turned off my computer by the switch on the Power Supply) And when i was installing windows it didn't work (It does now) And after it said that the drive was a total of 1.99 gigabyte's so im curios as to Were there other 36 - 38 Gigabytes of this hard drive has gone (This is a newer hard drive from www.tigerdirect.com) This is kind of wierd because it has never happened to me before and i have been using computers for most of my life

Thank's For reading my post

Sincerly,
| WildFire |

(Ps if its broken and i need to buy a new one just post it and if not then please explain in detail how i will fix it)

It says 29.49 Gigabyte Unallocated So what should i do now (Create new Partition) ?? Oh and also i forgot were the menu is to change my filing system to NTFS Could you post that aswell
 
is the partition (1.99Gb) FAT16 or FAT32 ?
the FAT32 to NTFS converter may not be installed, you can use third party software to convert from either FAT16 or FAT32 to NTFS (Partition Magic, software from Acronis.com)
 
You'll need to format the unallocated space to use it. Somehow, the filesystem got borked, which is odd if you were using NTFS, since it's more resiliant than FAT32/16. 2k and XP natively support NTFS, and will allow you to format your drive as such.

If you've just done a fresh install of Windows and haven't installed many programs, then you might boot off the XP disc, and go through the install again. This time, delete all the partitions, have the install format the entire drive as NTFS, and be on your merry way.
 
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