Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
April 22nd, 2006, 17:02
i have a WD800 dive in my system running XP...i was having some troubles with my 120GB drive so i decided to ghost the 60GB content from my primary drive to my WD800...
after fixing the issue with my 120GB drive i proceeded to delete the partition on the WD800 and reformat it as NTFS...when i deleted the partition the drive size now changed from 80GB to somewhere around 312GB...i have tried deleting the partition from in windows...from the XP setup and even from a Win PE disk with partition magic 8...no matter what i do teh drive still insists that it is somewhere around 312GB...
how do i fix the partition size issue? is it a known issue or anything like that??
if you need the error i got while formating it just tell ema nd ill get it...
i dont know how this is possible but i know in some old Quantam Fireball drives some types of formats will cause simmilar issues in drives...
i am a computer technition so dont worry about using technical terms im not easily confused...
when i actually try to format it just gives and error and does not format...
Thanks for any help you may be able to give me.
Brandon
April 22nd, 2006, 18:32
try to erase the MBR.
it is possible that some garbage is in the partition table that shows such partition size, regardless of the actual drive capacity.
As I remember with MHDD U can do it using a simple command.
regards,
pepe
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