Storage: SATA Hard Drive Factory Full Capacity Restore - Vista 64Bit.
SATA Hard Drive Factory Full Capacity Restore - Vista 64Bit.
by caxtin1 - 10/3/09 9:15 AMWestern Digital SATA Hard Drive - 640GB
Vista Home Premium - 64Bit
Gateway desktop.
Would someone know of any utility or method to restore a SATA hard drive's factory full capacity size? During partitioning my drive, it went from 595GB (640GB Drive) to only 32GB. Since it is a 64-Bit system, I can't find a utility to restore the drive's full capacity.
What partitioning utility?
by R. Proffitt
- 10/3/09 9:54 AM
In reply to: SATA Hard Drive Factory Full Capacity Restore - Vista 64Bit. by caxtin1
The last time I did this I used the Vista's installer. Worked fine.
No. I Don't Need To Partition
by caxtin1 - 10/3/09 11:54 AM In reply to: What partitioning utility? by R. Proffitt
My goal is to recover the original factory's hard drive's capacity size of 595GB and not the current 32GB.
Re: partitioning
by Kees Bakker - 10/3/09 12:00 PM
In reply to: No. I Don't Need To Partition by caxtin1
Does the Extend Volume option work: http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/02/16/how-to-resize-a-partition-in-windows-vista
Kees
(NT) "Extend Volume" is not active for the drive - it is grey.
by caxtin1 - 10/3/09 2:11 PM In reply to: Re: partitioning by Kees Bakker
Try Vista's tools
by R. Proffitt - 10/3/09 12:39 PM
In reply to: No. I Don't Need To Partition by caxtin1
And AFTER A BACKUP!!! Look up GPARTED. Again something odd is going on here. Was there some other than Vista tool used?
DRIVE FIXED!
by caxtin1 - 10/3/09 3:40 PM In reply to: Try Vista's tools by R. Proffitt
Okay, KUDOs to you TheDraac. I got the drive fixed. First I must have messed up the drive by using the Western Digital Lifeguard Tool on their own drive - ironic.
Using the Lifeguard Utility, I did what I had to and checked the BAs. My Native MAX LBA did not match my Current MAX LBA, and I did not know how to change it. I set, in the BIOS, the drive to LBA and the system got up to 137GB. Then I ran the Acronis WD (Western Digital) Edition (free) to check the integrity of the drive. It showed me the following partitions: 32GB, 137Gb and UNUSED 144GB. I opened my Easeus Partition Master to check the drive and found all the full size - it gave me more than the factory, it gave me 610GB instead of the 595GB for a 640GB drive.
Am so excited! Thanks for all your help here, I really appreciate all your help and time. You ALL have a wonderful weekend.
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