What happened to my hard drive space?

I installed a new Hitachi 80 gig drive into a PowerMac G4/500 256/ 27gb/ DVD-RAM/ Zip Graphite. Profiler read 74 GB. Fine. During a large file write, the power went out. On rebooting the Mac later, no hard drive. I ran DiskWarrior 3.03 on the drive and it came back onto the desktop. However, Profiler (and Disk Utility) no report the drive as being only 31.5 GB in capacity. I checked the drive using WhatSize and found no hidden files. I erased the drive using DiskUtility and have a drive reportedly clear of any and all files, but still claiming to be only 31.5 GB. In the old days, I would next have tried a low-level drive reformat but I'm told we don't do that anymore. What do we do? I am at a loss, here.

Version 3.0.3 is compatible with Tiger, so it shouldn't have done any harm, and I've never had Disk Warrior do anything like this to me (which is not to say it can't happen).
Have you tried resetting the jumpers?
If that doesn't work, do you have access to a PC? If you could put the drive in a PC as a slave, you could reformat it there, then bring it back to your Mac and try Disk Utility again. I've had some success with this method in the past.
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