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Hard Drive not showing correct GB Capacity

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by FatherShark, 2006/07/30.

  1. 2006/07/30
    FatherShark

    FatherShark Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hello everyone,

    I have a bit of a problem with my computer.

    My 2nd hard disk is 120GB, and I was moving a partition on it yesterday when we had a power blackout. When turning the computer back on, Windows only recognises it as a 35GB drive with 1 partition, although before the power failure it was a 120GB hard drive with a 35GB + a 75GB partition - I've lost a heap of storage.

    Anyway, I've ran Disk Doctor, Check Disk, and a heap of other utlities recommend to me on-line, but still no success.

    I was wondering if one of the talented people residing on these forums might be able to help me out?

    My OS is XP Pro, the drive is a 120GB IDE seagate and I don't need to do any data recovery on it.

    Cheers
     
    FatherShark,
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    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    FatherShark - Welcome to the Board :)

    It sounds like the partition info in the root of the disk has been fouled up by the black out which could not havecome at a worse time.

    First go the Disk Management (Right click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management) and see what size of disk is shown there. The 35 Gb partition should show and the rest of the disk may be shown as Unallocated Space. If that is the case right click on it and create a partition and format.

    If only the 35 Gb partition is shown I suggest you download the disk diagnostic utilities from Seagate and run them - your best chance of recovering the disk may be to do a low level format.
     
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