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jm4games · 03-14-2008, 03:18 PM

Hey guys i hope you can help me out with this.
I have a MyBook that recently went corrupt and it looks like the partition table might be bad.
The computer finds the actual usb device and knows that its a storage device. But Windows XP doesn't mount the drive nor does disk management pick it up.
I tried to pick it up in partition magic but it says the partition table is bad. When i tried to recover it using testdisk it finds the drive but it has the wrong information about it.
It says the drive size is 2199 GB when the drive is actually 500 GB. It says to check the HD jumper settings if the size is wrong but I am not exactly sure how to do that with a MyBook.
The original partition was NTFS and thats it. If someone could help me get the drive readable again so i can get my data off of it that be great.

03-14-2008, 03:18 PM	#1 (permalink)
jm4games Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 4 OS: xp sp2	Partition Table Trouble Hey guys i hope you can help me out with this. I have a MyBook that recently went corrupt and it looks like the partition table might be bad. The computer finds the actual usb device and knows that its a storage device. But Windows XP doesn't mount the drive nor does disk management pick it up. I tried to pick it up in partition magic but it says the partition table is bad. When i tried to recover it using testdisk it finds the drive but it has the wrong information about it. It says the drive size is 2199 GB when the drive is actually 500 GB. It says to check the HD jumper settings if the size is wrong but I am not exactly sure how to do that with a MyBook. The original partition was NTFS and thats it. If someone could help me get the drive readable again so i can get my data off of it that be great. Last edited by Deleted090308 : 03-14-2008 at 04:31 PM.