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by chuck0255

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Looking for some help on an unusual problem. I have a 200 gb WD IDE drive. I was imaging a 80 gb drive to it when I got a general protection fault on my system. Now the 200 gb drive read in cmos and all recovery programs as an 80 gb drive. Anyone have information on how to reset the drive to detect at the proper size?

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by rkuhn040172

Resetting the BIOS should work.

Owner's manual or website of manufacturer should help with that. Very easy to do.

Usually, just a matter of crossing two pins and/or pulling the CMOS battery.

by rkuhn040172

Then put it in a PC with an existing OS/HD and reformat it. Use your Disk Managment tool.

Of course, make sure it is the slave first so that you boot off of the other one.

by langlier

1. Chkdsk the drive using chkdsk /r/f
2. Run a hardware diagnostic to fully check the drive
3. Use a program like partition magic to verify that the hard drive no longer sees that space... it may just be that the image was an exact image and not designed to use the excess space.

and some questions
What software were you using to image the drive?
What operating system were you imaging from and to?

by chuck0255

I have used Restorer2000 a recovery tool and was able to get some of the data off. However until I can edit that drive and make it see the whole thing there is some I can see be can't access. This is not something that can be handled by normal procedures. It is a data recovery quest well beyond any normal tool.

Ghost was being used and the OS was XP Pro. I wasn't copying the drive it was suppost to create an image to burn on cd. Thanks for trying.

by chuck0255

Wouldn't work either. It would format to the size the system detects not the true size of the drive. Second I have data I am trying to recover off the drive. WD system tools show it as an 80 gig drive.

by langlier

in addition to my other troubleshooting steps it sounds like the MBR of the drive being imaged too may have gotten FUBAR. Boot into the windows recovery console and fixMBR

by ozi eagle

Hi,
You were imaging an 80 GB drive to it and now it reads as an 80GB drive.

I suspect that you need to use a partion manager, as suggested in another post to recover the "lost" space.

Good luck

Herb

by chuck0255

Not related to the partition. The drive reads in bios as an 80 gig instead of a 200. I have even edited the MBR so it shows the proper setting with no luck.

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