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Hard drive (H:) shows size as 720kb, but is actually 80GB
Hi, I have a* 2.8 GHz P4 intel processor* with an *ASUS p5rd1-vm* mother board and an *ATI radeon (128Mb) *Graphics Card with *768 Mb of RAM*. I recently put in a new hard disk and everything was running fine while I was using XP. I tried to install 7, but it did not work, so I decided to revert back to XP. After installation everything seemed fine till I checked on my hard drives. Drive H which should have a capacity of 85GB, shows only 720kb in size when it's properties are checked. All the other partitions seem to be working just fine. Also, when you click on the drive, It asks you whether you want to format the drive. If you say Yes, then another pop up appears "This Drive cannot be formatted". Any ideas? Please HELP -- SlapStick77 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SlapStick77's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/235414.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/xp-hardware/1348012.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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Hard drive (H:) shows size as 720kb, but is actually 80GB
SlapStick77 wrote:
Hi, I have a* 2.8 GHz P4 intel processor* with an *ASUS p5rd1-vm* mother board and an *ATI radeon (128Mb) *Graphics Card with *768 Mb of RAM*. I recently put in a new hard disk and everything was running fine while I was using XP. I tried to install 7, but it did not work, so I decided to revert back to XP. After installation everything seemed fine till I checked on my hard drives. Drive H which should have a capacity of 85GB, shows only 720kb in size when it's properties are checked. All the other partitions seem to be working just fine. Also, when you click on the drive, It asks you whether you want to format the drive. If you say Yes, then another pop up appears "This Drive cannot be formatted". Any ideas? Please HELP The very first question to ask about your situation is: Is there any information on this disk or disks, that you cannot afford to lose ? If we needed to "level" or "zero" the machine, would that be OK ? If not, do you have backups to use, to do a restore in case of an emergency such as a disk failure ? If you go to Start : Run : diskmgmt.msc and use the Disk Management window, it should show a representation of how your disk or disks are partitioned. A disk can have multiple partitions, so one physical disk could be holding C:, D:, E:, F:, and so on. If a partition is not initialized (hasn't had a file system put on it yet), then that might the reason it wants to be formatted. While I could dream up some pretty low level things to try, I'd first start by describing what you see. For example, something along these lines. This would be a physical disk ("Disk 0") which has two partitions on it, plus an empty space at the end. | +-----------------+--------------+-----------------+ Disk 0 | | C: | D: | Unallocated | Basic | | FAT32 | NTFS | | xxx GB | | Healthy (Active)| Healthy | | Online | +-----------------+--------------+-----------------+ Does what you see look "normal" at all ? Maybe the MBR has been written with bogus info, and a partition got shrunk and ruined ? The program "TestDisk" can be used to compute a corrected MBR, but I would not recommend using this, until we understand what happened to your disk or disks. Any time you fool around with disks, it's real easy to zap something permanently. If you don't have backups, and need some of the data, then slow down and take your time. Don't be in a rush to try every tool offered to you :-) http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step 720KB happens to be the size of a floppy diskette. The diskettes I normally use here, are 1440KB high density ones. 720KB would be the previous generation. I don't think it is a coincidence, of the value 720KB. That might be telling you something, such as some tool decided to make some kind of backup or emergency disk or partition. Paul |
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Hard drive (H:) shows size as 720kb, but is actually 80GB
On Jun 21, 10:38*pm, SlapStick77
wrote: [...] Drive H which should have a capacity of 85GB, shows only 720kb in size when it's properties are checked. [...] Is H a drive, or a partition? 720kb -- total size, or free space ? If H is a drive, take it offline and plug it to another PC to see how it looks. Can you access files on H: ? If so, copy them to somewhere when you still can. If H: is a partition, use some partition manager to check if there are other hidden partition(s) that could account for missing disk space. Google "free partition manager". |
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Hard drive (H:) shows size as 720kb, but is actually 80GB
feels like something went wrong during partitioning. maybe u entered wrong figure when creating the partition? Or using an outer "Extended Partition" can sometimes restrict the logical partitions inside. Extended partitions are shown in GREEN at Window's Computer Management Disk Management to confirm if there are no damages to the hard disks, try these free programs i use. check the hard disk SMART status aeo3 hard disk smart viewer http://aeo3.com/apps/hdsmart/index.html or or speedfan http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php -- adrwow ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adrwow's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/235851.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/xp-hardware/1348012.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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