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HDD damage due to power failure dur
Name: v.naveen Date: March 11, 2009 at 01:53:08 Pacific OS: Windows XP Subcategory: Hard Drives
Comment:
Hi, I got an issue, During installing windows and formatting, the power failure occures.
And now my hard disk drive which is of 80GB capacity, shows only 40GB in the Bios. I have very important data on drive so i havn't tried to use it as it is.
Does any one have suggesstion for that. Pl. Mail me on naveen_bti@yahoo.com
Name: cliffpage Date: March 11, 2009 at 07:13:34 Pacific
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if you were formatting the drive you were wiping all of the data anyway so it would all be gone. i have not come accross the capacity redcing like that. normally a 80gb drive would only show as 40gb if A) the motherboard/BIOS is so old that 40gb is max B) the capacity limit jumper is on the jumper section on the hard drive
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Response Number 2
Name: OtheHill Date: March 11, 2009 at 09:38:18 Pacific
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When you say the BIOS are you referring to the POST screens at start up or the actual BIOS screens?
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Response Number 3
Name: matthewbulat Date: March 15, 2009 at 05:55:13 Pacific
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Consider using a non destructive Live Linux CD to look at the partition and copy files from it to a USB memory stick. I have written a How To page <a href="http://www.matthewb.id.au/computer/Reuse_Old_Comp uter_with_Linux.html">Reuse computer with Linux
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