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removing ontrack disk overlay
I installed an 80GB hard drive on an old machine a while ago and had to use Ontrack Disk Managers DDO feature to get it to recognise the full size of the drive.
I am now upgrading the machine to a new system running XP and wanted to format the drive. But the BIOS would only recognise the drive as 32ish GB. Using the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test utility from the www.hgst.com website i formatted the drive and also the MBR. I know realise that this was a mistake and I seem to be stuck with the 32GB because the DDO info has now gone.

Is there anyway I can remove the DDO information completely so I can get back to the full size disk?
I've had a look at the Ranish Partition Manager but not sure if that can help me in anyway.

Any help greatly appreciated.

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When you say formatted, do you mean low-level or 0 filled?
Did you delete all partitions with FDISK and repartition it?
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i didn't use fdisk. i formatted from within the drive fitness test utility so i'm not sure which type of format it was.
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i just ran fdisk and it displays no partition information
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or another way is just use the 32gb partition for windows and apps and then create a new partion in the available space ( d drive) and use that for your data

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when i install windows on the 32gb partition will it recognise the full size of the disk??
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It should.  On paper, W98 should see 2 terabytes, but 137gig is about all that it will handle in real life.
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