You will need decent recovery software. Some of it can be quite expensive.
One of the best tools I've used is Disk Commander from Winternals
http://www.winternals.com/products/r...pid=ap#diskcom
however it is definitely in the higher end price range.



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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


"Nehmo Sergheyev" wrote in message
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- Harry Ohrn -
Are you certain it is jumpered correctly? Some large hard drives have
a
capacity limiter jumper setting so they can be used with older boards.
I do
not know if that is true for your drive but if the jumper is set
incorrectly
that could be one reason why the size is not being properly displayed.

- Nehmo -
After I send this post, I'll physically remove it and put the jumpers
off and then back on to make sure of the contacts. But if Western
Digital's literature is correct, then I have the drive correctly
jumpered as slave - 1&2 connected + 3&4 connected, both jumpers next to
the power connector.

The size of the drive showed up as reduced after I ran CHKDSK /F. While
I was running that, BTW, CHKDSK correctly listed the name of the drive
and it's size. Now I can't even get the name.

Since the drive is now listed as healthy in Computer Management, I
believe if I formatted the drive now, it would be usable at the reduced
size. But that's relatively not important. I want to retrieve the data.


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