I know my data is just sitting there perfectly fine.
#How to set ez gig iv software#
But when the LBA is set to 60 GB, no software is able to read past this limit. Why can't MHDD reset it? I don't believe there is anything wrong with the heads or platters. I know this LBA setting is stored on the drive itself. MHDD does see the maximum LBA address as 195317567 (100 GB), but is unable to reset it from the smaller size of 114270346 (60 GB).
I used the commands "config" and "NHPA" in the wonderful package MHDD, but neither command works. There is still some data on this section that I need. I was able to recover all data up to 60 GB using data recovery tools, but not between 60 GB and 100 GB. It looks like the exact LBA settings from the 60 GB drive were transferred to the 100 GB drive, so now the 100 GB is a 60 GB as far as the BIOS and OS are concerned. In the BIOS, the drive now shows as 60 GB, when it was/is a 100 GB drive. The CD booted and tried to load, but said that both drives had to be internal.įair enough. The 60 GB drive was connected via external USB. But 60 GB hard drive was the original factory drive. The 100 GB drive was not a factory drive from Dell (laptop is Dell Inspiron E1705) so does not have MediaDirect on it. I used an older software package called EZ Gig II by Apricorn, which I believe is just a version of Acronis software. I was trying to image/clone 1 partition, out of 4, from a 100 GB drive to a smaller 60 GB drive. I think I had the exact same situation happen to me. I thinking it's a combo of Imaging,HPA and the way Dell sets up the partition. Normally when you image a hd,you're able to add the unallocated space to your main parition. Thus you harddrive is stuck at whatever the original size of the image.
It's either being imaged over and then when you put that harddrive back into the computer,the hpa see the unallocated space an takes it.Įither that or somehow the firmware is getting rewritten on the drive? It has been said that HPA doesn't get transfer do to it being hidden. My theory is somehow when you image the original drive,the hpa gets imaged over. I also used acronis to image a 40 gig to a 100.ĭo you happen to have a dell laptop with the directmedia button on your lappy? I've notice after googling that people that have dells with this particular feature run into the same problem. Which is why the 100 gig hd shows as 40 gig. It does however show that the drive is hiding 60 gigs of space in the HPA. I've tried HDAT2,but that doesn't work either. I've tried Mhdd,but that doesn't uncut the NHPA. I had this also happen as this other guy too
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