Hi,

Just an amusing story about a laptop HDD.

A friend came round the other day to download some stuff over my ADSL connection this was going fine until a restart after which the computer wouldn't bootup.

He tried a re-install of windows etc all with no effect.

The next morning I took a look at it and decided to have a go a FDISKing the drive.

When I started FDISK and got into display partitions I was amazed to see that it reported a 50Gb drive!!

The laptop only has a 20Gb one!!

Next I tried Partition Magic 7 which came up with loads of errors and when it eventually loaded decided that I had a 200GB drive.

By this point we were most amused!!

As a last resort I tried booting from the win2kpro CD.

This actually booted (which winXP wouldn't)!

When I got to the page showing HDD properties it was rather interesting to note that I now had four partitions as below:

1: 20GB
2: 400GB
3: 1445GB
4: 256GB

Still amazingly the Win2k installer let me delete all this and left me with a fully functional 20GB drive again.

I guess that might say something about win2k over winxp!!

Hope you find this amusing, we certainly did.