Maxtor diamond plus 120 gb - CAP setting

[Pieter Morlion]

hi,

i have a 120 gigabyte harddisk filled with data. I took it out of a
new PIV-computer to put it in my old P-III system. Because the bios
doesn't accept drives larger than 32 gigabyte, i used the CAP - jumper
setting on the maxtor harddisk.

Because i couldn't retrieve my data, i flashed my bios, that
recognises the disk now without any problem.

The only problem is now that in windows, my drive is still shown as a
32 gigabyte drive, and I can't retrieve any data on my disk, though
there are no jumpers set. Even partition magic doesn't recognises the
full 120 gig.

Are there people who had the same problem, and know a way to retrieve
ALL of my precious data ? (I tried with Getdataback NTFS, but it only
could find 16/120 gb ... )

thanks,

Pieter

 

[Pieter Morlion]

hi,

i have a 120 gigabyte harddisk filled with data. I took it out of a
new PIV-computer to put it in my old P-III system. Because the bios
doesn't accept drives larger than 32 gigabyte, i used the CAP - jumper
setting on the maxtor harddisk.

Because i couldn't retrieve my data, i flashed my bios, that
recognises the disk now without any problem.

The only problem is now that in windows, my drive is still shown as a
32 gigabyte drive, and I can't retrieve any data on my disk, though
there are no jumpers set. Even partition magic doesn't recognises the
full 120 gig.

Are there people who had the same problem, and know a way to retrieve
ALL of my precious data ? (I tried with Getdataback NTFS, but it only
could find 16/120 gb ... )

thanks,

Pieter

appearantly, the maxblast software (i installed before flashing my bios)
changes the mbr of my hard disk. Is there a way to restore the originals ?

Thanx,

Pieter

 

[Fabien LE LEZ]

appearantly, the maxblast software (i installed before flashing my bios)
changes the mbr of my hard disk. Is there a way to restore the originals ?

Under DOS/Win9x, "FDISK /MBR" might work.