Only part of drive is recognized by computer

[kgeil]

Hi, I'm trying to recover data from a 6 GB laptop hard drive, by hooking it up to a desktop tower using an adapter. I'm pretty sure it is hooked up right, because BIOS recognizes it as a Toshiba drive, with a size of 6000 MB (which is 6 GB) but when I boot from a CD, using either spinRite, or the UBCD4Win, it shows up as 3MB in size. I have also hooked it up to an XP machine with a USB connector, and get the same result: 3 MB. It was a windows 98 hard drive, and I can see some system files, and that's it.

Does anyone know how I can get a machine to recognize the entire drive?


Thanks in advance,

Kevin

 

[TheMisio]

Kevin,

Try KNOPPIX. It's a bootable linux distro.
It has saved my data many times. Can see disks, that Windows can't.

Good luck.

Regards,

Michael

 

[DataRec]

Sounds like a firmware corruption. When the drive's firmware does not function properly, different BIOS will see it differently.
To fix hdd firmware, you will need to check out PC-3000.