SR wrote:
> The "Computer Management" reports the HD as 128 GB   and
> Partition Magic shows it as 131 GB.
> 185.2 GB is written on the hard disk...

So you go with your 180 Gb disk, but you've been hitting the LBA 
adressing limits of 128 Gb.

Back in 94 when disks were beginning to hit the 512 Mo limit, LBA was 
something revolutionnary designed to avoid this kind of problem, ever, 
imagine this, it would go up to 128 Gb !