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Geo. posted the following to homeless.nthelp:



> Note two things, first the disk is showing as 176g instead of 185g, second
> is the boot sector errors?
>
> Ideas anyone? If I open "My Computer" and try to navigate to
N:, I get an
> error that the disk needs to be formatted so the format definitely didn't
> work.
>
> Geo.
>
>
>
Don't forget 1,000,000 and 1,048,576.  Sorry it didn't work.

How about a utility like Partition Magic.  I realize you don't want to do that.

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l'bodacious - But a second opinion might help?

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