Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - Seagate Momentus 7200.2 160gb is now showing up at 38gb

nspatel112 · 05-03-2008, 04:28 AM

I bought this HDD and formatted it, partioned it into 3 pieces and installed XP Pro on one of the partitions. Then tried to copy over the image I had created of my old hard drive onto a second partition. This lead to no more booting and when I tried reformatting the drive using the XP Pro CD, the drive was being recognized as only a 38gb drive. No software I have tried thus far is able to see the old missing partitions. There is no data on there that I need to recover. I just want my 160gb back! Please help and I will be greatly indebted!

05-03-2008, 04:28 AM	#1 (permalink)
nspatel112 Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 2 OS: XP	Seagate Momentus 7200.2 160gb is now showing up at 38gb I bought this HDD and formatted it, partioned it into 3 pieces and installed XP Pro on one of the partitions. Then tried to copy over the image I had created of my old hard drive onto a second partition. This lead to no more booting and when I tried reformatting the drive using the XP Pro CD, the drive was being recognized as only a 38gb drive. No software I have tried thus far is able to see the old missing partitions. There is no data on there that I need to recover. I just want my 160gb back! Please help and I will be greatly indebted!