well,

if this just don't beat all....

After running wdclear and running ranish partition the drive size is 3.0GB (on the dot???) and whats even more strange is that the HD info, isn't right but the size is.

Code:
Cylinders: 750              Sectors: 255              Heads:63
compared too what it should be:
Code:
Cylinders: 6997            Sectors: 63                Heads:15

oh well,

tested theHD and everything seems to be running very smothly, thanks everyone for their input. You saved me $40 from buying a new HD =)