Several 1TB ntfs-drives went 32MB RAW after BSOD

[broink]

Hi

First of all, yes, I read the posts about 1-2 years old about this, and didn't get how to do it.

Yesterday, I had a BSOD, and when rebooting i noticed 2 of my drives were missing in the BIOS. I therefore disasembled and cleaned the computer, and started to do some testing. The testing was: Connect 1 drive at a time to SATA-connector 0, and see if it gets detected. All was detected, so i reasembled the whole thing and successfuly booted back into windows. This is where the problems starts...

Suddenly, 3 out of 4 drives (those who hold all my data, to be safe from OS-crash) are now 32MB RAW instead of 1TB NTFS.

The drives are:
1x Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 - 1TB
2x Samsung HD103UJ - 1TB

So far, I only dared to research the Hitachi-disk due to more important backups are on the Samsung-disks. But what I have found out is, that the disk is reduced to a much lower LBA than it should have. HDDscan tell me that LBA is 65134, tha label on the disk say 1953525168.

Result from HDDscan:

Code:


Model: Hitachi HDS721010CLA332
Firmware: JP4OA39C
Serial: JP2911HQ2RPHWH
LBA: 65134

Report By: HDDScan for Windows version 3.1
Report Date: 2011-01-11 11:04:19

Main Information
Name  Value 
LBA Support Yes
LBA28 65134
LBA48 65134
ATA Version 8
Logical Sector Size 512 bytes
Physical Sector Size 512 bytes
Cache size 29999 KB
ECC bytes 56
Nominal Form factor 3.25"
RPM 7200
Interface SATA
Connected through IDE-onboard controller


DMA Support
Name  Value 
DMA Support Yes
Multiword DMA 0 Supported
Multiword DMA 1 Supported
Multiword DMA 2 Supported
UDMA 0 Supported
UDMA 1 Supported
UDMA 2 Supported
UDMA 3 Supported
UDMA 4 Supported
UDMA 5 Selected
UDMA 6 Supported


PIO Support
Name  Value 
PIO Support Yes
PIO 0 Supported
PIO 1 Supported
PIO 2 Supported
PIO 3 Supported
PIO 4 Supported


Features Support
Name  Value 
SATA Gen2 3.0 Gb/s Supported
SATA Gen1 1.5 Gb/s Supported
Software Settings Preservation Enabled
Commands queue Supported
Queue depth 32
NCQ Supported
TCQ Not Supported
Host Protected Area (HPA) Supported
Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) Supported
Advanced Power Management (APM) Supported
Power Management Supported
Read look-ahead Enabled
Write cache Enabled
Password Protection Supported
SMART Enabled
Device Configuration Overlay (DCO) Supported
General Purpose Logging (GPL) Supported
Streaming feature Supported
SMART self-test Supported
SMART error log Supported
SCT Command Transport Supported
SCT Long Sector Access Not Supported
SCT Write Same Supported
SCT Error Recovery Control Supported
SCT Features Control Supported
SCT Data Tables Supported


I tried to run HDD Capacity Restore, but when I start it (even when "run as administrator") I get a "Error: Error opening driver", then this. I cannot choose any of those drives, since there are multiple ones on each channel.

I also read something about Gigabyte motherboards doing funky stuff, of wich I did not understand much, other than my BIOS has written something to my drive. I have a GIGABYTE X38-DS5 MB.

Millions of kudos for you internet heroes if you can help me =)

[dmarques]

You probably have an HPA (Host Protected Area) set on the drive.

[fzabkar]

A bug in Gigabyte's Xpress Recovery BIOS has incorrectly truncated your drive after backing up a copy of the BIOS in a HPA.

See the following thread for an explanation and solution:
lost-partition-hitachi-1gb-hdt721010sla360-t15662.html