2GB HD = 8GB HD?.... Cool!

[Blade]

I have a Samsung HD, it used to be in an older computer, but it's been being used as a test HD for a while now. The HD has 2GB actually printed on the top.

I was trying to get a friend's computer working (he has a major HD problem), and I attached this Samsung HD to see if I could get the computer to work. When I went into FDISK, I noticed it said something about "free disk space- eight thousand something megabtyes". I didn't really think about it, but that's about 8GBs.

I took it back out of the computer, and put it in an external USB IDE case that I have to look at it in my computer, and Windows says that it's 8GBs.

WHAT IS GOING ON?! Have I been blessed by the HD gods? The one problem is that I couldn't really get it to work on my friend's computer, and scandisk crashes after getting about half-way throught the surface test. I have tried, and I can copy files to the HD on my comp, and I can read the files on it.

Any thoughts?

[glc]

From my experiences with Samsung hard drives - it's shot.

[HAL9000]

I've had that happen a few times with different brands. Set up 6.4Gb drives as 13Gb and 10.2's as 20's and so on. They appear to work fine under DOS, passing scandisk tests, but I couldn't comment on reliability. Attempting to boot to Windows was a no go.