[SOLVED] Western Digital HDD Data Lifeguard Problem

Aturaten · 08-19-2007, 03:51 PM

I made the mistake of installing Ontrack to my hard drive and now it reads it in the BIOS as 33GB. I've attempted to use Data Lifeguard Tools' "Set Hard Drive Size" function but I get an error message. This is the gist of it:

"THE SET HARD DRIVE SIZE FUNCTION CANNOT BE EXECUTED NOR IS IT NECESSARY AS THIS DRIVE IS CONNECTED TO AN ADDITIONAL CONTROLLER"

I want my HDD to read as 160GB again. I'm not prepared to format at this time though.

**linderman** · 08-19-2007, 06:31 PM

Hello

are you able to access your data on the drive right now ????

can you boack-up the data on the drive to another drive so we can wipe & erase the drive and start over ??

what does disk management show the rest of the hard drive beyond the 33gigs as ??????????????????

what is ontrack ????????????

there is a program called getdataback (runtime.org) they have a free scanner, you scan the drive with that scanner, if it can see all of your data and folders and files have proper names, then the paid for version ($39.00 I think ??) will back-up your data to a different drive ?????

best regards

Aturaten · 08-20-2007, 12:59 AM

While I appreciate your post you know nothing about the utility and thus cannot help me.

Aturaten · 08-20-2007, 01:56 AM

I fixed. Solved.

08-19-2007, 03:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
Aturaten Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 28 OS: WINXP	[SOLVED] Western Digital HDD Data Lifeguard Problem I made the mistake of installing Ontrack to my hard drive and now it reads it in the BIOS as 33GB. I've attempted to use Data Lifeguard Tools' "Set Hard Drive Size" function but I get an error message. This is the gist of it: "THE SET HARD DRIVE SIZE FUNCTION CANNOT BE EXECUTED NOR IS IT NECESSARY AS THIS DRIVE IS CONNECTED TO AN ADDITIONAL CONTROLLER" I want my HDD to read as 160GB again. I'm not prepared to format at this time though.

08-19-2007, 06:31 PM	#2 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,437 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Re: Western Digital HDD Data Lifeguard Problem Hello are you able to access your data on the drive right now ???? can you boack-up the data on the drive to another drive so we can wipe & erase the drive and start over ?? what does disk management show the rest of the hard drive beyond the 33gigs as ?????????????????? what is ontrack ???????????? there is a program called getdataback (runtime.org) they have a free scanner, you scan the drive with that scanner, if it can see all of your data and folders and files have proper names, then the paid for version ($39.00 I think ??) will back-up your data to a different drive ????? best regards __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

08-20-2007, 12:59 AM	#3 (permalink)
Aturaten Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 28 OS: WINXP	Re: Western Digital HDD Data Lifeguard Problem While I appreciate your post you know nothing about the utility and thus cannot help me.

08-20-2007, 01:56 AM	#4 (permalink)
Aturaten Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 28 OS: WINXP	Re: Western Digital HDD Data Lifeguard Problem I fixed. Solved.