Re: How to recover from 128GB unwanted partitioning (Maxtor HD)?
- From: "Yves Leclerc" <yleclercNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:34:56 -0400
The partition table could have been "scrambled" during the crash. You might
have to look for disk recovery utilities or consider sending the drive out
to a recovery firm.
"Olivier Travers" <olivier.travers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1127923208.264297.23680@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> I moved a Maxtor 300GB IDE drive from a Windows XP Pro SP1 machine
> (that suffered a big hardware failure) to a working Windows XP Pro
> machine without SP1/2 installed. For reference, during the failure of
> the first PC, three other drives seem to have suffered physical damage
> since two of them (IDEs from WD) are not recognized in the BIOS anymore
> (tried them in two different PCs, what can I do with them at this
> point?), and the third (Maxtor SATA) seems to short the motherboard
> (the power supply turns itself off a split second after power on). The
> SATA drive is probably the cause of the problem in the first place:
> after some tests I found it was the device that seemed to short my
> motherboard, and during those tests (after several automatic power
> offs) I eventually got a buff of smoke from it (not intented of course,
> I was trying to isolate the source of the short).
>
> Back to the Maxtor IDE drive that still seems physically ok, as it's
> the one I have most hope of recovery for. It was recognized as 300GB in
> the bios of the PC I moved it to, but it appeared as unformated and
> limited to 128GB under Windows. After some research I moved it to a
> third Windows XP Pro box, this one with SP2 installed as well as the
> Maxtor large drive fix (for some reason I don't think I ever needed
> that large drive fix on the first PC the drive was in).
>
> Now Windows recognizes the drive at its proper 300GB, but it reports a
> 128GB unformated partition, plus the remaining space as unpartitioned
> space. I'm not sure the 128GB thing is due to the original crash, or to
> my connection to a PC that wasn't set up to recognize the whole disk.
> Of course I never repartitioned the drive myself.
>
> How can I restore my 300GB partition and the data on that drive? Thanks
> a lot for any help, as often in these stories there's some unsaved data
> on that drive...
>
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