I bought a new Seagate 160 GB drive off the net.
Installed it through DOS with 2 start-up floppies using discwizard.
It said on there windows xp cannot allow to 160 GB so it will do it to 137 GB.
I then loaded up into windows and saw it was only 127GB.
I downloaded and installed discwziard for windows.
I then GREW the partition to 160GB.
Kept GETTING warnings saying it is recommdned you do a scandisk before this.
I ignored all warnings and continued.
It also asked me if i have the correct drivers saying it strongly recomends i get them.
I didn't know what ONES to get so again i went straight ahead.
The partition now says 149GB is this still 160gb?

I am now running all the tests (Discwizard full diagnostic test and the ontrack easy recovery full one)
Has found no errors so far.
Am going to do a chkdsk.

Over time will i get problems?
Can data corruption/loss only be caused from bad sectors, would those bad sectors be logged though in programs like chkdsk?
Also can the bad sectors be detected even with nothing on the drive?

Thanks.Why can I only see 127 to 137 GBytes of my 160+ GB drive?Yeah you're right.

Also how would i know if my divx movie was corrupted if i didnt have bad setors? Would it error before playing, everytime?Did you read the warning in the link provided?

Warning - Formatting an ATA interface drive past the 137GB barrier on a system that does not meet all requirements will result in data loss.
OK, ive already done it now.
In scans with ontrack's software and their software it has logged no bad sectors at all.
Can i undo what i did or get the operating solutions for windows xp?
How do i find out if i got an ultra ata/133 pci card?
I have an intel p4 chipset, does that mean its ok??

Help man im really worried!!
Just filled it up to 78GB

I was running SP2 at the time.
At the end of the drive's partition extension i ran:
CHKDSK - No Errors.
Ontrack's Full Diagnostic Test - No Errors.
Seagate's Disc Wizard Drive Self Test - No Errors.

Will i still have data loss?
Is there a way to undo what i have done? If so, how?

If i did have data loss, it would be bad sectors wouldnt it cos data loss can only be from bad sectors cant it?
Would those bad sectors be picked up on chkdsk and others software?

Also in chkdsk's stage 4 of 5 from 16% it skipped all the way to 86%