Now with 31MB after HDD LLF

[Lord_Doomy]

Hello.

Since I cannot find any other post with this kind of information, I put this here.

I tested LLF on a 1TB Seagate hard drive with SMART problems (the hdd works well but with a SMART Bad warning) , trying to fix it if I could. I connected it with a USB adapter and used the APP.
The application did not work well ... errors everywhere.
I read that the error is because I connected it via USB. It's okay. At 20% I cancel the operation and everything ends without warnings or anything.

Now I tried to reconnect the driver and all systems read it as 30MB.

How can i fix this?

[fzabkar]

Could this be the problem?

GigaByte BIOS bug results in loss of 1TB capacity:
http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=150

[Lord_Doomy]

I doubt it because I realize I did it on an Asus motherboard and tested it on a Dell and MSI. But I will try to apply the solution from this post.

Wish me luck.

[fzabkar]

The same problem also affected some Asus motherboards, IIRC.

[Lord_Doomy]

I tested the Seatools solution by repairing the original capacity and it works perfectly.

Thanks for the solution

[diybit]

I got one GigaByte MB that do this BIOS backup on drives that support HPA. (Socket 775)
Mine have never produce this bug, but this shit erase the boot sector backup present at the end of the drive. (and potential data present there...)
I avoid this by firstly disabling HPA support with HDAT2 before 1st plug with another computer, and now I also partition with 16MB free at the end to avoid problems...

I don't know for your problem Lord_Doomy, does your BIOS post show the right capacity? have you find a giant HPA?