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Hard Drive Help.
« on: April 4, 2004 01:27 am CST »
For my birthday, my parents got me an 80 gig new harddrive. It was a Hitachi Deskstar7k250, and on the label it says CAPACITY: 80.7 gigabytes. Now, I installed it as a slave and everything, but windows says it is only 32.something gigs, I matched its model # with the model # of the hitachi deskstar7k250.

http://pcmag.dit.net/reviews/review.php ... VkHeIMYGZm

Model # = HDS722580VLAT20

So, I found that it should be an 80 gig because of the model number, and of how it looks. They look identical(the one in my comp, and the one in the pic) So, is this just windows mis interpreting it all? Or did I get shafted? Thanks.
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« Reply #1 on: April 4, 2004 06:14 am CDT »
my intuition says....check the bios/cmos settings
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Re: Hard Drive Help.
« Reply #2 on: April 4, 2004 08:32 am CDT »
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hitachi deskstar7k250


Deathstar.
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« Reply #3 on: April 4, 2004 11:06 am CDT »
The cmos for the most part isn't going to do a damn thing to the capasity of the hard drive.

At the very least.. Check your partition.

NOTE: Do realize that if you modify a partition in any way you are at risk for losing all data on your HD. This doesn't mean it will damage the HD, just erase everything on it or make all data on it corrupt.
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« Reply #4 on: April 4, 2004 11:30 am CDT »
Did Hitachi buy IBM or something?

I had one 40GB Deathstar die a couple years ago, but the other one is still going strong with one death under its belt.  It died and couldn't even be recognized by the BIOS.  I froze it, pulled all the data off of it, and it still kept going.  It's worked ever since.

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Check your motherboard's IDE firmware.  It may have to be patched to support larger capacity drives [unlikely].  Also see if you can format it with a different OS than Win9x.
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« Reply #5 on: April 4, 2004 11:55 am CDT »
I upgraded to WinXP, and it says 30 gigs. Plus, we tried my brothers slackware linux boot cd, and we couldnt get it to recognize the harddrive at all.
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« Reply #6 on: April 4, 2004 01:04 pm CDT »
Well, if nothing you try works, take it back and get a new one. Or call the company's tech support.
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« Reply #7 on: April 4, 2004 02:38 pm CDT »
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Did Hitachi buy IBM or something?

.... It died and couldn't even be recognized by the BIOS.  I froze it, pulled all the data off of it, and it still kept going.  It's worked ever since.


You froze it? As in stick it in yur freezer froze it? A Drivesicle!!
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« Reply #8 on: April 4, 2004 02:51 pm CDT »
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« Reply #9 on: April 4, 2004 02:58 pm CDT »
Only a matter of time before my laptop's 30gig deathstar dies...
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« Reply #10 on: April 4, 2004 03:32 pm CDT »
Well, you put it in a baggie first, but yeah.

It was my first drive and I didn't baggie it so it was just a hard drive sitting in a freezer.  Works wonders for emergency data retrieval when certain things are bad.
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« Reply #11 on: April 4, 2004 04:32 pm CDT »
I'll need to keep that in mind.  Thankyou.
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« Reply #12 on: April 4, 2004 04:55 pm CDT »
omg..your acctually being serious. I was just joking. You acctually freeze it!??!
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« Reply #13 on: April 4, 2004 09:32 pm CDT »
The platters on a hard drive get smaller in colder environments. It makes data a lot easier to pull because the heads usually have to do less work.

Heat on the other hand makes the platters expand. Something you don't ever want.


So yes if you have a hard drive thats going bad, sticking it in the freezer as long as it has an air tight seel (so no moisture gets to it) will most of the time give you enough time to recover data.
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« Reply #14 on: April 4, 2004 11:25 pm CDT »
o wow....
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