hard drive size

[nelsonb99]

The other day my power supply/motherboard blew up. So I brought a new one, installed vista, no problems. However I have two hard drives, one SATA (primary) and one IDE (secondary).The secondary should be 120 gb hard drive, but its only 4gb.

I have tried error checking it. Going to disk managment confirms its 4gb and there is no unallocated space. It says its healthy. I have tried reformatting it from vista but 4gb is the only size which appears in the drop down. Its formated as NTFS.

I have downloaded a demo of Data Doctor Recovery and can see all my files on there. I am actually too worried about data retrival as I take regular backups, I just want the space back.

Has anyone got any ideas?

 

[ski]

See if the full 120 GB is seen on another system. If not, then the HD's firmware may have been zapped when the PS failed.

 

[nelsonb99]

tried it on an xp machine and its the same story.

 

[ski]

If it was connected to the XP system with a different IDE cable, then it appears that you may have your answer.

 

[wahnula]

IF you don't care about the data, just the space, I would hook up ONLY THE DRIVE IN QUESTION and run DBAN on the problem disk. I don't know why I love this program so much, except it has solved many strange issues like this. Plus, I like typing "autonuke"...

Tony

 

[cdogg]

Also, visit the drive manufacturer's website for a low-level format utility that might kick something into gear...

~cdogg
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[ncotton]

Was this disk ever ghosted?

Neil J Cotton
Technical Consultant
Anix Group Ltd