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Accident with Raid controller (250GB is now 40GB) 1

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enoxy7z

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Mar 30, 2005
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Ok, so I was checking out the settings for my raid I/O card that my 250GB ATA/133 drive is connected to. I accidently pushed something and now my 250GB shows up as a 40GB drive and I can't access it. When I click on it windows offers to format it!! Ahh!! This is very emotional for me because I have thousands of photos of my family on that drive and other things that can't be replaced. I have GetDataBack for NTFS but sinse windows only thinks its a 40GB I cant scan the whole drive... Please help me save this drive!
 
I've plugged the 250GB into my secondary master IDE channel on my motherboard and removed the Raid controller card completely. The drive is still read as 40GB by windows though.
 
I found a way to save everything! All I had to do was connect the hard drive and controller card to another computer. The drive showed up just as it should. I am going to re-format my other computer and wait until afted windows is installed to connect the 250GB back up.


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