Hdd format problem

How Soon Is Now · 08-06-2011 7:32pm #1

I decided to use an spare internal drive from my sky box with a docking station i have for me pc as extra space.

So i plugged it in all to see that the drive is write protected.

I found a way of fixing this online and gave the following details.

go into command prompt
then type "diskpart"
type "list volume"
then "select volume xxx" (where xxx is the write protected problem drive)
then type "attributes volume clear readonly"

Now after i did this the drive went from 320 gigs to to 31.9 ????

Any ideas what happened and how to fix this??

How Soon Is Now · 09-06-2011 4:59pm

Any ideas???

Lazarus2.0 · 09-06-2011 5:07pm

Can you see the disk in Disk Management ? If so is there 288gigs of unallocated space ?

I'm terrible with command prompt so can only guess a zero got dropped off the end of the capacity somehow during the partitioning dialogue .

How Soon Is Now · 09-06-2011 5:13pm

Ok after checking that i now have one drive K with 31.9 gigs and a new volume drive L with 265 gigs both of which came from same hard drive.

Any way i can just put two together??

Lazarus2.0 · 09-06-2011 5:26pm

Right-click on L drive and Delete Volume . You should be able to then right-click on K drive and Extend Volume to incorporate the unallocated space deleting L created .

How Soon Is Now · 09-06-2011 5:37pm

Tried it and didnt give me the option. Tried it with other drive and said it wasnt supported???

Ok i deleted both and then started new volume and now have one drive with 298 gigs better then nothing i guess

Lazarus2.0 · 09-06-2011 5:45pm

That's normal .. a 320Gb(decimal) drive is 298Gb(binary) .

How Soon Is Now · 09-06-2011 6:16pm

Ya good stuff all sorted :-) thanks lads

Hdd format problem

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