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Semi bricked hard drive

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fuzzymath10

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I just moved my drives from a 775 board to a 1155 board. All the drives were fine except a 1TB caviar green. For some reason it now shows up as exactly 128GiB or 137.4GB. It is partitionable up to that amount. I've tried multiple SATA ports on the motherboard and enclosures which used to work with it. Nothing showed up as 1TB. Any thoughts? I'm okay writing it off since it's my smallest drive and had nothing important on it.
 
Take off what data you want from the drive then "WIPE" it.

(If you actually have data beyond the 137GB limit then that should actually be recoverable with the proper utility.)

The drive should then be able to be reformatted to full capacity (shotgun over it using DOS if necessary; ie, FDISK - Delete partition, Create Partition; Full Format).
 
most new board have on the drivers CD, some program to open up the bigger hard drive's.
More information such as your operating system, and stuff would help. but then again your said your fine with wiping it.......
 
Sorry, forgot to mention that this is a Server 2008 R2 system with a handful of 3TB drives that made the transition smoothly. So, I have my doubts it's the familiar 137GB issue. Enclosures that I know worked at one point also detect it similarly on other machines running Windows 7. It was a parity drive for a Flex raid, so I've already rebuilt using other spare disks. It's still a peculiar issue though!
 
I had this issue with several 1.5TB WD Greens a few years back. They'd inexplicably become 500GB drives after a few power cycles.

Solved it by using HDD Capacity Restore, and haven't had any trouble since :
http://hddguru.com/software/2007.07.20-HDD-Capacity-Restore-Tool/

If the utility gives an error message (unable to restore), launch again, power cycle the HDD (with the system still ON) BEFORE hitting the Restore button
Shutdown HDD and system after restoring for ~1 minute
 
WhoBeDaPlaya, that program seems like it should do the trick; it seems to describe my issue perfectly. I will give it a shot. Thanks everyone.
 
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