120GB drive was showing up as 160GB. I didn't notice it was wrong because I got it and my 160GB mixed up. You know how Windows 2000 always lists them different anyway. Well, I didn't notice it until it filled up and now all the data is sort of lost. Probably it is gone, but when using testdisk, I can find the partition. When I try to write it to the table and reboot it fails to be recognized. I think it will not remount because it is being listed as too big. I can't read it in knoppix either.
What I am wondering is if there is a way to fool the system into thinking the hard drive is big enough to transfer the data that is accessible, or else delete the files that pushed it over the limit. All the data should still be there, just not linked. Except for the last data that caused the crash. I'm not sure all that makes sense but thanks for any help. There is nothing irreplaceable on there, but it would be time consuming.
The size limit problem is with my motherboard I think. The hard drive is a Seagate st3120026a. I believe the actual cylinders is 16383, but they are showing us as 19457. None of the normal settings in my ecs k7vta3 6.0 motherboard bios will easily let me select the values as listed by Seagate. I could manually set them, but it would take hours to get to the right value. Right now the manual setting is around 50000. I'd almost rather buy a new motherboard than push the page down button for that long. However the motherboard does list it as being a 120GB. I formated the disk with knoppix to the wrong value. Windows actually formatted it to the right size and it worked good for something like 3 years, but stupid me thought that for some reason it was 160GB and decided to get greedy.
Testdisk is really nice if you need it, but it isn't working this time. So sad. Help?
What I am wondering is if there is a way to fool the system into thinking the hard drive is big enough to transfer the data that is accessible, or else delete the files that pushed it over the limit. All the data should still be there, just not linked. Except for the last data that caused the crash. I'm not sure all that makes sense but thanks for any help. There is nothing irreplaceable on there, but it would be time consuming.
The size limit problem is with my motherboard I think. The hard drive is a Seagate st3120026a. I believe the actual cylinders is 16383, but they are showing us as 19457. None of the normal settings in my ecs k7vta3 6.0 motherboard bios will easily let me select the values as listed by Seagate. I could manually set them, but it would take hours to get to the right value. Right now the manual setting is around 50000. I'd almost rather buy a new motherboard than push the page down button for that long. However the motherboard does list it as being a 120GB. I formated the disk with knoppix to the wrong value. Windows actually formatted it to the right size and it worked good for something like 3 years, but stupid me thought that for some reason it was 160GB and decided to get greedy.
Testdisk is really nice if you need it, but it isn't working this time. So sad. Help?
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