HELP!!! Hard drive expert needed to get my drive working again!

[jrichrds]

I recently took out a 4.3gb hard drive inside an AMD K6-2 (FIC VA-503+ mobo) computer, and put in my 13.6gb hard drive. Being used to computers auto-detecting hard drive sizes and parameters, I forgot to go into the BIOS and choose the auto-detect selection so the bios knows the hard drive is now a 13.6gb rather than a 4.3gb. I then went into fdisk, deleted the NTFS partition that was on the 13.6gb drive, and created a new primary partition. While the partition reported as having 13gb, the middle of the screen also had a note that I had a total of 4.3GB of hard drive space. When exiting FDisk, I got a "disk write error." Now my drive just won't work!
It autodetects fine in the BIOS now as 13.6gb, but fdisk keeps reporting "disk write error".

The drive itself is fine, but the partition structure or whatever it may be is messed up. Anyone know a way out of this?

 

[warlord]

try downloading the manufacturers software, I know a few of them have software that is decent at wiping out old mistakes.

 

[Garion]

I seem to recall that NT 4.0 will only recognize 4 (or was it 8?) GB of disk storage in the initial setup. The rest would then show up in the disk manager to be created as another partition later. This the case for you?

- G

 

[techfuzz]

Format the MBR on the disk. Sounds like you f'd it up somehow. If that doesn't work, d/l the manufacturers disk utilies from the net and low level format the disk.

Last suggestion, put the disk in another computer and format/fix it.