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Hard Drive Partition problems
Posted by probe47 on December 16th, 2003


I have a 60gig hard drive that WinXP found problems on. It did a chkdsk and
deleted files, fixed security, index etc. When I went into Partition Manager
the partition was bad so I deleted it. Now I cannot reclaim that space.
Western Digital tools only see the drive as 29gigs. I was able to setup the
partition again with some program but could not format it. It there a
solution to reclaim the drive. I have stipped all data from drive so I can do
anything to reclaim. I think the MBR is messes up so it reads it as a 29gig
drive. Anyway to set this drive back to original specs and start over. TIA

Posted by Kierkecaat on December 17th, 2003


On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:22:23 GMT, probe47 <probe47@hotmail.com> wrote:

If you already have the WD tools, you should have the ability to
fill/reset the drive with zeros, which should solve your problem. If
not you can download from here:

http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp

DLG Diagnostic
dlgdiag11.zip
September, 2003
(1.52 MB) looks like a good bet. It includes the option
to write zeroes to your drive.

Best, KC


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