This is the story of the incredible shrinking disk. Somehow 88GB of disk disappeared when I tried to low level format a drive so I can do a clean fresh reinstall.
It was a 120GB IDE drive running XP professional with 3 partitions. 32gb, 42GB and 42Gb. After six reliable years issues were developing so I felt a clean install was needed.
First I used a floppy disk I made a few years back using software from Seagate site called "Disk wizard". It took 8 hours for it to completely erase the disk. I've used disk wizard several times in the past with great success.
Then out of curiosity I load a DBAN which I downloaded on Cd but never used.
Basically, I wanted to check out how it worked. I ran autonuke and 20 seconds later it said there was an error.
It didn't matter since I already did what I intended to do with disk wizard
or so I thought.

Well when I tried to install the OS again it only showed I had a 32GB hard drive.
Then I went into the bios and the bios Identified the drive correctly at Maxtor 6B120PO but said it was only 32GB in size.
What happened to the other 88GB?? how do I get it back.