How do you fix a changed LBA?

[Clinth]

I picked up a used 120 gig hard drive that the owner claimed to have changed the LBA so it would only show 80gigs. So hopw to I change it back?

Thanks,
Clinth

 

[DocDon]

 

[DocDon]

Not exactly sure but I think LBA is set in the BIOS -- Try hooking it up and see what it it is read as.

 

[xgsound]

First try the drive manufacterer's utilities.

If they don't work, the "ultimate boot cd" has several disk utilities on it that can do it. Many of the programs are brand specific, but work if one of thier drives are present. I have used it for exactly this purpose (return a 60g to 60g from 30g). I think ranish was the program I used.

Here http://www.storagereview.com/guide/guide_index.html is a place to read up on how the disk capacities can be manipulated.

These are low level changes to the disk and require a floppy or cd boot disk .


After that is changed you will probably still have to fdisk and format for use.

Jim

 

[imported_rod]

Have you had a look at the drive with "disk management", or a program lke "Partition Magic" ?

RoD

 

[CrispyFried]

Jumper?