Harddrive erased itself?

[KevFromNy]

There is no unallocated space in the manage screen. Just the 128 GB. It showing the harddrive on the bios. It was a homebilt computer a couples of years old, with an ASUS P4s533 Mother board

 

[KevFromNy]

And I used windows to format it first then I used partiton magic. But now It will not allow windows to format it again

 

[Bruce]

u can try deleting the partition in disk management.You should be seeing the full amount.i checked asus's site i see no mentions of a problem like this.did u try western digitals utility?

 

[Bruce]

check out this place


http://www.48bitlba.com/tools.htm


try the enablebiglba tool, but it'll prob say your OS supports it already, but I also see summin for intel right below it that may help you.

 

[KevFromNy]

I installed the harddrive in another computer and it read 186 gb of the 200gb. Thats actually beeter that what it read when I originally formatted it it only read 175. So I think I have to upgrade the BIOS of the motherboard or enablebiglba. Il try that and let you know if it works

 

[KevFromNy]

Ok now Im having another problem. I cant update my Bios. Im trying to use the EZ Flash (ALT + F2)feature for the ASUS motherboard but it will not . So now im stuck there.

 

[Ste]

What happens afte your press those two buttons?

Do you have the floppy disk with the Update ready?

 

[KevFromNy]

Absolutly nothing happens , it just continues to boot to windows xp. And I have done this over 20 times today. Yes I do have the bios update on a floppy disk already

 

[KevFromNy]

I found out what the problem was. I spoke to a technician at ASUS and he said my board can only read up to 150Gb after its flashed . I think im just gonna get a new board Iv been wanting to for a while now. I know this is a stupid question but isthere anywhere I can take my hard drive to get the information back that I lost

 

[RicoDirenzo]

You don't need to take it anywhere. once you have replaced your mobo and boot to the 80 gig drive install the 200 gig as a slave. Go to www.runtime.org and get this recovery program and your data will be salvaged!!