On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any idea why this could be happening?
Hi Raj,
I have faced the exact same problem. My drive was being recognized as
80GB instead of 160GB, and not matter which software, which OS I tried
same issue.
Then I stumbled on to stuff like HD tools etc.,
This is a small boot disk which you can use at startup, and it boots
into its own kernel. There you manually write the partition table.
Take a note of the figures printed on the drive, and write them down.
Then when you boot in the CD, manually write the partition table.
For my western digital HD data lifeguard is available
http://support.wdc.com/download/downloadxml.asp

There are man by others for example hitachi
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#FeatureTool

Ideally gparted should be able to repair a corrupt primary partition table.

There is another tool called
http://www.ptdd.com/edit.htm
So you write down your end cylinder number etc., and manually fill in the data.

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