Er help, my 120 gig drive turned itself into 30 gigs

[jasonjm]

IBM Deskstar ICL35L120AVVA07-0

I was installing a new OS, so I wiped the partitions clean with FDISK...

Now all OS's (win2k, winxp) even partition magic sees the drive as a total size of 30 gigs. what the hell?

Is there some sort of low level format or something I can do?

very confusing.......

 

[nick1985]

DEATHSTAR!!!!!

 

[cmdrdredd]

stick the drive in another system and format as NTFS 1 partition and see what happens.

 

[Arcanedeath]

You prob. used an older version of Fdisk that can't make larger than 32gb partishions, I'd wipe the drive and use either XP or the manufactures boot floopy to partishion and format the drive and see if that gets you the full capacity back. Hope this helps....

 

[jasonjm]

I tried everything....

Even windows XP once I load it up on the drive, inside of win XP it still sees the total drive space as 30 gigs more or less, not showing any more space, unused space, unused partitions etc etc

Even partition magic 7 booted from DOS mode sees the drive as 30 gigs max no matter partitions i delete, even if I delete em all, and partition magic is pretty powerful

Wonder how long the warranty on this piece of ahem is.......

 

[cmdrdredd]

you did not try everything! Use a different machine and wipe the partition off and try reformatting it then

 

[Ketchup]

Start the computer with your Windows XP CD and delete the partition.

 

[WHipLAsh13]

IBM Drive Fiteness Test. You can perform low level formats with this utility. It should do the trick.

 

[jacktesterson]

never in the history of mankind should somebody purchase a IBM hard-drive...sure there good to you start hearing high pitched noises or when they crap out 5 months down the road....IBM easily not the best durability choice. stick with Maxtor, WD and Seagate, i personally like Maxtor for everyday use. (and I have had good luck with Fujitsu drives in the past too...)

 

[WHipLAsh13]

AMDHardcoreFan its different strokes for different folks. I have 3 IBM drives and have installed dozens of others for clients and no peeps from any of them. They have been rock solid as far as performance/reliability and most are well over a year old now. Now Maxtor is a different story had 4 Maxtors and now I have 4 paper weights. All 4 drives failed. I wouldn't take a Maxtor if you gave it to me. 8mb cache WD's right now are my HD of choice but if the right deal came up for a Hitachi(formerly IBM), I would feel perfectly confident in buying one.

 

[zephyrprime]

Is there is size limitation jumper on the drive that you set by accident?

Also, you can download the IBM drive utility and simply reset the size of your drive.

 

[jasonjm]

ooo i fixed it!

rumaging thru my drawers of "stuff" I found a promise IDE 133 TX 2 controller. I put this in the machine and connected the IBM to this drive and it sees it as 120 gigs now!

cooool

Now, where to sell the thing? ebay? hehehe

Anyone here know how much faster the western digital raptor is really than the top of the line western digital 250 gig in desktop usage?

Or if the new maxtor plusline 250 gig drive top of the line drive is really that much more reliable/quiet and worth $70 more than the western 250 gig?

thanks!

 

[AtomicDude512]

Originally posted by: nick1985
DEATHSTAR!!!!!

I think all your posts in your "Platinum" rating are single word, correct me if i'm wrong.

 

[Ketchup]

Originally posted by: AMDHardcoreFan
never in the history of mankind should somebody purchase a IBM hard-drive...sure there good to you start hearing high pitched noises or when they crap out 5 months down the road....IBM easily not the best durability choice. stick with Maxtor, WD and Seagate, i personally like Maxtor for everyday use. (and I have had good luck with Fujitsu drives in the past too...)

IBM makes fine hard drives. My 120 GXP is running great alongside my DiamondMAX Plus 9. IBM made a bad hard drive in the past, the 75 GXP, but I believe those days are over.

In these forums, I have seen just as many or more people with dead Western Digital Special Edition drives, but nobody would dare to blacklist them.