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weaponx · 10-03-2006, 11:27 AM

Hi people,

I've been having trouble with one of my hard drives. Its a 40 gig Maxtor with no OS on it but just data, for some reason when i transferred it into another computer it wouldnt register at all at first. After a while it did register but it needed me to format it for me to access it. However when i did format it it only registered as a 4 gig hard drive. And I've tried it in several computers with the same result. All the data recovery programs I've used only seem able to recover from the visible part so nearly all my music and games are gone. Has anyone com across this kind of thing before? Is there anyway to resize it? So i can recover my data, i have priceless tunes from the 90's there :(...

10-03-2006, 11:27 AM	#1 (permalink)
weaponx Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 6 OS: XP	Hard drive size error Hi people, I've been having trouble with one of my hard drives. Its a 40 gig Maxtor with no OS on it but just data, for some reason when i transferred it into another computer it wouldnt register at all at first. After a while it did register but it needed me to format it for me to access it. However when i did format it it only registered as a 4 gig hard drive. And I've tried it in several computers with the same result. All the data recovery programs I've used only seem able to recover from the visible part so nearly all my music and games are gone. Has anyone com across this kind of thing before? Is there anyway to resize it? So i can recover my data, i have priceless tunes from the 90's there :(...