I lost 100GB :(

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christianc83@gmail.com - 26 Sep 2008 06:59 GMT

Hi.
It seems liked I wasted money on a new Program Partition Magic. I had
some trouble with my second hard drive. I deleted it using partition
Magic and now its gone. Its 120 GB but now its only 32GB. There doesnt
seem to be any way to recover that other space. It registered in BIOS
as 32GB now, and there is know way to undelete in Partition magic.
Does any body have any advice?
Im using windows xp home edition. the drive I have trouble with is my
internal slave.

thanks.

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John John (MVP) - 26 Sep 2008 11:17 GMT

Is the BIOS set to Auto Detect the drive type & size?

Get a diagnostic utility from the hard drive manufacturer and run it on
the disk to see if it is physically sound. The diagnostic utility
should contain a zero fill option, use it to zero out the first sector
(MBR) then see if the BIOS sees the disk properly.

John

> Hi.
> It seems liked I wasted money on a new Program Partition Magic. I had
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> thanks.

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Ben Myers - 27 Sep 2008 14:48 GMT

> Hi.
> It seems liked I wasted money on a new Program Partition Magic. I had
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> Im using windows xp home edition. the drive I have trouble with is my
> internal slave.

As mentioned by another poster, most hard drive manufacturers have
installation and diagnostic software available for download.

Maxtor and Seagate http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/
Western Digital http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=999&swid

Ben

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