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Reporting Wrong Hard Drive size
Name: piers Date: April 26, 2004 at 09:30:07 Pacific OS: XP Home CPU/Ram: 128Mb
Comment:
I have installed 98Se and now XP Home and my hard drive is reported as 20Gb whereas on removing it I see its 12Gb (I bought the Laptop second hand and now have 13Gb+ on it but it now won't boot. I need to recover my files etc.... Its a 05k9263 12Gb IBM part. At a guess I'd say someone has buggered up the firmware. Any ideas?
Name: antoeknee Date: April 26, 2004 at 10:10:43 Pacific
Reply:
Piers, if you have data on the drive that you want to recover then get an adapter that allows you to connect the drive to a desktop machine and set it as slave. Hopefully if the drive ain't buggered you should be able to backup the data.
Not sure about the misreporting if you manage to get you data back you could try fresh install of the OS.
Oh, the adapter you need only costs a few dollars/pounds
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Response Number 2
Name: piers Date: April 26, 2004 at 11:07:53 Pacific
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Thanks I've seen them in stores for about $6.00. Any ideas where I can get a proper version of the firmware. I've called IBM but they're useless and not helpful.
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Response Number 3
Name: wizard-fred Date: April 26, 2004 at 13:04:51 Pacific
Reply:
Is there a possibility that any form of drive compression software was installed? That might account for the drive size being reported different.
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Response Number 4
Name: antoeknee Date: April 26, 2004 at 14:36:55 Pacific
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Yep compression seems like probable. Take a look in the bios and see what its being reported as.
Can't remember were it is but there is an option in 2000 (I would expect same for XP) to show compressed folders in a different colour.
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