wrote:

sorry about that, i was scanning the wrong drive,

I wondered if that was what might have happened

but scandisk still says it cant scan it,

Does scandisk say why it cannot scan the disk? Does it report any errors?

fdisk says that the
total disk space is 76317 MB which is alright (sorry, 80
GB drive, not 120)

How does fdisk say the disk is partitioned? Option 5 to select the hard
disk, then 4 to check how partitioned. Does it show the filing system to
be FAT32?
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Mike Maltby MS-MVP [2001-2004]