Maxtor HD shrank ..... eeek !

[Chris James]

My Maxtor 6Y160 P0 160 Gb drive used to be a healthy 160 odd Gb .
Just yesterday it has decided to be a 32 Gb drive instead .
I regret that quite a lot of ' stuff ' appears to have gone .
I would dearly like to get the ' stuff ' back .
What to do ?
I have Acronis partition repair program , which I am a beginner with .
As well I have partition Magic and Ghost .


Suggestions please .

BTW , how fragile are these HD devices . ... might this happen again ?
Is a RAID setup the best protection ?



Chris

 

[Arno Wagner]

My Maxtor 6Y160 P0 160 Gb drive used to be a healthy 160 odd Gb .
Just yesterday it has decided to be a 32 Gb drive instead .
I regret that quite a lot of ' stuff ' appears to have gone .
I would dearly like to get the ' stuff ' back .
What to do ?
I have Acronis partition repair program , which I am a beginner with .
As well I have partition Magic and Ghost .

Suggestions please .

BTW , how fragile are these HD devices . ... might this happen again ?
Is a RAID setup the best protection ?

I don't think this is an issue with the drive. Usually the only way
to get the drive to claim less capacity is by special jumper. I am
not sure, but I think the 160GB Maxtors don't have the 32GB limiting
jumper anymore.

More likely a driver or OS or perhaps BIOS issue.

Arno

 

[Peter]

My Maxtor 6Y160 P0 160 Gb drive used to be a healthy 160 odd Gb .

Just yesterday it has decided to be a 32 Gb drive instead .
I regret that quite a lot of ' stuff ' appears to have gone .
I would dearly like to get the ' stuff ' back .
What to do ?
I have Acronis partition repair program , which I am a beginner with .
As well I have partition Magic and Ghost .
Suggestions please .
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

BTW , how fragile are these HD devices .

I have heard that some of them "crash"...

... might this happen again ?
Is a RAID setup the best protection ?

Better than no protection, worse than verified, offsite backup.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Run IBM/HGST Feature Tool or Svend's Identify and or Findpart utility
http://www.hgst.com/downloads/ , http://www.partitionsupport.com/utilities.htm

I don't think this is an issue with the drive.

Usually the only way to get the drive to claim less capacity is by special jumper.

So little you know, blabbermouth.

I am not sure, but I think

So little you know, indeed.

the 160GB Maxtors don't have the 32GB limiting jumper anymore.

More likely a driver or OS or perhaps BIOS issue.

Utter nonsense.