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Re: 160gb just showing 28.3gb?????

January 18th, 2013, 11:54

lcoughey wrote:From what I see, whoever installed the drive into the client's system cut it down to 32GB, likely because the system was old and wouldn't access anything larger. The drive was partitioned and formatted that size and anything beyond the 32GB mark is likely data from a previous owner.

I don't see any reason to believe that the drive suddenly did this on its own, coincidentally re-sizing the partition to size to match.

Are you sure that you don't have everything from in the 32GB NTFS partition?


No i don't have everything in the 32GB, that was the weird part.

I am already getting data out of it and it looks good but, for some weird reason i saw 3 Partitions:
78.1GB
28.3GB
70.9GB

so I'm checking folder by folder to see the files, when i saw those weird names i found most of my dad data there, I'm curious tho is there a way to rebuild the drive or the image i did so i can see how the drive look like, when it was on the old PC?

Re: 160gb just showing 28.3gb?????

January 18th, 2013, 12:38

Well i was able to get 6GB of info, i found a couple of pictures corrupted tho.
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