Missing Hard Drive Space
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nineveh
, Apr 19 2005 10:12 PM
#1
Posted 19 April 2005 - 10:12 PM
#2
Posted 20 April 2005 - 02:01 AM
Did your Hitachi drive come with any drive management software? I know that Western Digital drives come with Data Life Guard and other programs, so I would imagine that the Hitachi has their own too.
If it does, run it as the instructions say, and use it to check your partitions and space.
I had an incident occur with a WD drive I had (80GB). It would show it was only 10GB, and even after using FDISK and formating in windows, it still was only showing as 10GB. I used WD's tools and restored the drive, and it fixed the problem.
If it does, run it as the instructions say, and use it to check your partitions and space.
I had an incident occur with a WD drive I had (80GB). It would show it was only 10GB, and even after using FDISK and formating in windows, it still was only showing as 10GB. I used WD's tools and restored the drive, and it fixed the problem.
#3
Posted 20 April 2005 - 01:29 PM
Hrmm....well it did come with one, Ontrack disk manager. It has an option to "install" a hard drive for partitioning and formatting. I reaaallly dont want to format though. In the midst of trying to fix this I've recoverd around 50 gigs of space that i was missing before this happened, but that was just from file deletion and whatnot. But now i'm still missing that 100 gigs. The ontrack software came with a disk utility that runs from dos, but when i run it i get a error saying that theres a bad or missing command.com, and it cant run. So if there are any utilites that i could use, its not working. Any other suggestions, I'd like to do anything i can before resorting to formatting.
#4
Posted 25 April 2005 - 07:12 PM
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