Hi

Recently i had a bluescreen, and when rebooting I noticed that my system-disk was no longer connected. I then disconnected all of my 4 disks, and tested them one by one for 2 reasons: 1. Find my systemdisk physically and 2. See if they all worked. I now belive that it was a stupid mistake after reading a bit on the forum...

See, I have a Gigabyte X38-DS5 motherboard. And if I understood everything correct, having a non-system disk as first/only disk connected makes the BIOS copy itself to the first sectors of the disk. This has obiviously corrupted something, since they no longer are recognized as 1TB disks.

By using testdisk, i have found out that:
1. My NTFS partitions are still on the disk
2. The disks LBA are now 65158, instead of approx 1,5 billion (thus, only 32MB)
3. I might not be completley screwed.

What more information about the disks are neccecary for you to help me? I have HDDscan, HDD Capacity restore (wich do not work), and a hex-editor to help me out.

My guess for solution is to restore the boot-sector of the disk, and all will be fine. But I'm not sure how, or where to find a copy of it.

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

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