Re: (This is not a BIOS or Windows issue) Drive size problem.
- From: okcmike@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 24 Feb 2006 22:23:23 -0800
Use WD's Data Lifeguard Tool's 'Set Hard Drive Size' utility to correct
the hard drives capacity.
umop wrote:
I have two identical Western Digital 250GB hard disks which were
previously in a RAID array in a Lacie D2 BigDisk enclosure. When I
place either inside any other controller I have, I end up with one
showing up at it's accurate 250GB value, and the other at a truncated
128GB. I have gone into WinHex, a disk editor, and found the following
information being reported:
Disk 1 (Wrong):
cyls 16709
heads 255
sectors per track 63
bytes sect 512
surplus sectors 3323
reported size: 137437904896 bytes
Disk 2 (Correct):
cyls 30401
heads 255
sectors per track 63
bytes sect 512
surplus sectors 3711
reported size: 250058637312 bytes
It appears that the physical parameters on this disk are incorrect, and
I need to find out where they are stored so I can change them and
restore the data from my disk. I have tried swapping the driver cards
from the good HD (disk 2) to the bad one (disk 1), and it still shows
the same values. I don't care about continuing to use the disk, I just
need to be able to read everything so i can get my data back.
Any ideas what program I can use to change the disk parameters of the
incorrect disk, or at least a method I can use to retrieve the (raw)
data?
Thanks,
Eric
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