Seagate Momentus 7200.2 160gb is now showing up at 38gb

nspatel112 · 05-03-2008, 03:28 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!

johnhook · 05-03-2008, 03:55 AM

nspatel112,

I'm thinking the initial partitioning of this drive is what limited the space. If you want to use the ENTIRE 160Gb of this drive, you should be able to remove ALL parititions from it and install Windows on a single 160Gb partition.

Doing do will erase ALL data on all existing partitions, so be sure you have backups of any/all data on those partitions that you need to retain.

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.js...&reqPage=Model

- John

nspatel112 · 05-03-2008, 04:00 AM

Thank you for you message John. None of the partitions show up in recovery software that I used, but they were all windows based. Is there any software outside of Windows that I can use to look at and format the drive at the physical level?

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnhook

nspatel112,

I'm thinking the initial partitioning of this drive is what limited the space. If you want to use the ENTIRE 160Gb of this drive, you should be able to remove ALL parititions from it and install Windows on a single 160Gb partition.

Doing do will erase ALL data on all existing partitions, so be sure you have backups of any/all data on those partitions that you need to retain.

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.js...&reqPage=Model

- John

johnhook · 05-03-2008, 04:33 AM

nspatel112,

What software did you originally use to partition this drive? I ask because if you used Windows (current version you're running), you should be able to see and access those partitions. When parititioning and formatiing in Windows X2 or XP or Vista, you have the choice of NTFS or FAT32 partitions. Did you use this drive on some other OS or PC?

You can try Symantec's Partition Magic to view/manipulat partitions on a hard drive:

http://www.symantec.com/norton/produ...d=sp&pvid=pm80

There are OTHER programs out there, such as:

http://www.datadoctor.org/

http://www.brothersoft.com/downloads...partition.html

http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm

http://www.partitionrecovery.us/

Or you can do your own google search:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...tware+freeware

Hope this helps.

- John

05-03-2008, 03:28 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!

05-03-2008, 03:55 AM	#2 (permalink)
johnhook Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 810 OS: MS SBS 2003 SP2	Re: Seagate Momentus 7200.2 160gb is now showing up at 38gb nspatel112, I'm thinking the initial partitioning of this drive is what limited the space. If you want to use the ENTIRE 160Gb of this drive, you should be able to remove ALL parititions from it and install Windows on a single 160Gb partition. Doing do will erase ALL data on all existing partitions, so be sure you have backups of any/all data on those partitions that you need to retain. http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.js...&reqPage=Model - John

05-03-2008, 04:33 AM	#4 (permalink)
johnhook Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 810 OS: MS SBS 2003 SP2	Re: Seagate Momentus 7200.2 160gb is now showing up at 38gb nspatel112, What software did you originally use to partition this drive? I ask because if you used Windows (current version you're running), you should be able to see and access those partitions. When parititioning and formatiing in Windows X2 or XP or Vista, you have the choice of NTFS or FAT32 partitions. Did you use this drive on some other OS or PC? You can try Symantec's Partition Magic to view/manipulat partitions on a hard drive: http://www.symantec.com/norton/produ...d=sp&pvid=pm80 There are OTHER programs out there, such as: http://www.datadoctor.org/ http://www.brothersoft.com/downloads...partition.html http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm http://www.partitionrecovery.us/ Or you can do your own google search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...tware+freeware Hope this helps. - John