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  1. EmmBee19

    HD Madness - Losing partitions & drives, Impossible capacity

    My friends, this situation has got me so confused I'm stressing out way too much trying to handle all this -and- the holidays, too. I've got perplexing screen caps galore, but without a coherent narrative to put them in context they'll just be too baffling. I suspect some or all of you are...
  2. EmmBee19

    HD Madness - Losing partitions & drives, Impossible capacity

    First of all, I want to thank everyone who's replied for their valuable time! This is easily the most responsive support site I've ever encountered, and I'm very impressed by the brains and talent on display! I apologize for my delay in responding, but you all know the holiday rush... I've...
  3. EmmBee19

    HD Madness - Losing partitions & drives, Impossible capacity

    Thanks to you, too, goombawaho! There was a time I suspected the mobo, but now I see the exact same problems on two different motherboards... The first mobo is a high-end Asus PCI-X workstation with all SATA drives connected either via a brand new PCI-X 4-port SATA-II RAID-capable HBA (just...
  4. EmmBee19

    HD Madness - Losing partitions & drives, Impossible capacity

    Thanks for your reply, BadBigBen! I've downloaded and run the latest version of WD diags several times on both systems before posting and again just now. It reports all drives are perfect on both machines. I've also run the standard disk check, and it didn't show any problems either. Also, I...
  5. EmmBee19

    HD Madness - Losing partitions & drives, Impossible capacity

    Within the last 10 days, I've experienced a lifetime's worth of hard drive problems! Summary of Problems: (1): Some hard drives show more storage than physical capacity. (2): Some hard drives not seen at all on the same SATA port that other drives work fine on. (3): Partitions disappear, are...

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