tobtoh@gmail.com wrote:

> I have a Seagate 250 Gig ATA drive in an external disk enclosure
> (connects via USB to my PC). When I connect, it reports the partition
> as 2048 Gig!!!
> Does this sound correct? Anyone have any other theories?

Maybe, just maybe, the disk actually is 2048GB.

Now how they invented the time machine is another matter entirely.