My hard drive is missing?

My computer came with a hard drive 640 GB and now after reformatting it claims I have only a 48 GB hard drive with only 2 GB of data remaining.

Could someone offer me a solution?

Not worth it.  You cannot format a disk with a version of Windows on it (Windows is not suicidal and you won't 'kill'!) so you will have to boot from the DVD, choose custom installation, and then delete the partitions and then put in shape.  Then reinstall.

If all goes well, it will not even ask whether you want FAT32 or NTFS, it will be just format it in NTFS.  Given that this will delete all information on the hard drive, make sure to save everything you want or need, such as music, videos, documents, PST files if you use Outlook etc etc.  Or, of course, to move to a secondary hard drive.

For security reasons, if I have a PC with more than one hard drive in it (and most of my PC and laptop so) I unplug them before formatting the drive, either by removing the power cable or the SATA of Ribbon so that the BIOS or Windows can 'find '.  It's just a precaution, but I know that their data are then not available and cannot be accidentally formatted or deleted.  Once Windows is up and running again and I have made sure I have all the drivers etc, then I can close, reconnect, restart and have all the data on their return.

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