thanx mate its done i now have 200gig hard drive again ....much appriciated !!!!!!!

so how do you reckon it lost it in the first place because it happened after a friend f-disked and installed windows again ...what did they do wrong ?

my last problem that i can fins is that im trying to install all programs back on but when i try to install my much loved black hawk down ...the run disk starts i select install game and it all freezes up and then i get an error message saying

"application failed to initiaze properly (0xc0000006) click on ok to terminate the application "

im lost without it lol

thankyou soo much you have really really helped me