External HDD Help

tactic · 10-15-2009, 01:28 AM

I bought a used 80GB Iomega Exteral HDD on Ebay. When it arrived I plugged it in and it's only showing 37.25GB. Now I tried to reformat it, look for partitions with no success. I tried using third party partition softwares with no success as well. What could be the problem? Am I doing or not doing something?

Here's a screenshot:

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.

**raptor_pa** · 10-15-2009, 05:32 AM

Was it already formatted when you got it or did you format it? If so how? It looks like there is an HPA or DCO set on the disk. Take it out of the enclosure, mount it internally on a desktop and try Capacity restorer from here. http://blog.atola.com/restoring-fact...rive-capacity/

10-15-2009, 01:28 AM	#1 (permalink)
tactic Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1 OS: Win Vista	External HDD Help I bought a used 80GB Iomega Exteral HDD on Ebay. When it arrived I plugged it in and it's only showing 37.25GB. Now I tried to reformat it, look for partitions with no success. I tried using third party partition softwares with no success as well. What could be the problem? Am I doing or not doing something? Here's a screenshot: THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.

10-15-2009, 05:32 AM	#2 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,764 OS: XP	Re: External HDD Help Was it already formatted when you got it or did you format it? If so how? It looks like there is an HPA or DCO set on the disk. Take it out of the enclosure, mount it internally on a desktop and try Capacity restorer from here. http://blog.atola.com/restoring-fact...rive-capacity/ __________________