On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, Last year I purchased a brand new 1TB drive, brought it home and > plugged it to find it was a 32MB drive. I took it back for a replacement > drive which did not have the problem. >
That's some shrinkage! > > > Yesterday I took a Seagate 1TB drive out of an old decommission Vista > machine and plugged it into my server and found it had shrunk to 32MB. I > estimate I burnt up at least 2 solid man hours trying the drive in different > machines and using different BIOS tricks to get it back to 1TB again without > hope. It’s a popular problem during web searches. Hundreds if web pages > later I find advice to install SeaTools for Windows, but it’s a waste of > time as it doesn’t repair problems like this and just does scans. > Once the OS has mounted it, you're at too high a logical level, IIRC. > > > Then I found an ISO CD image of SeaTools for DOS (SeaToolsDOS223ALL.ISO) > which you boot from and it has a surprisingly pleasant screen where you can > “Set capacity to MAX native”. This put the drive back to 1TB and it’s now > recognised as such over in my server where I originally wanted it. > > Admire your perseverance, Many would write it off due to low cost of 1TB drives these days. > > Just in case this helps others avoid the suffering I went though. > > > > Greg -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
