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My hard drive Shrunk!

March 6th, 2016, 12:12

Hi,
It is one old WD6400AAVS 640 GB that after attempt to split it into two volumes, shows
only 128 cb.
Assay programs such acronis disk director, gparted, windows disk manage, zero format,
but still appears as 128 gb, PLEASE HELP!

(Sory for my bad English)

Re: My hard drive Shrunk!

March 6th, 2016, 12:35

Try NHPA in MHDD or Victoria.
Or try this : http://hddguru.com/software/2007.07.20- ... tore-Tool/

Good luck

Re: My hard drive Shrunk!

March 6th, 2016, 15:33

You can also remove a HPA with HDAT2:

http://www.hdat2.com/

Re: My hard drive Shrunk!

March 6th, 2016, 18:11

GeorgeGF wrote:Hi,
It is one old WD6400AAVS 640 GB that after attempt to split it into two volumes, shows
only 128 cb.
Assay programs such acronis disk director, gparted, windows disk manage, zero format,
but still appears as 128 gb, PLEASE HELP!

(Sory for my bad English)


Thank you, thank you very much my friend !!!!

NHPA command in MHDD works, 634 GB free !!!!

Thanks again !

Re: My hard drive Shrunk!

March 6th, 2016, 18:39

Glad it worked for you.
Congrats. :)
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