250GB HD stopped working after reaching 137GB limit

psycho_klown66psycho_klown66 New
edited September 2004 in Hardware
I have a Maxtor 250 GB ATA Internal IDE HD.

My P4 1.8 (Win 2K) used to recognize the harddrive as a 250 GB drive and everything was fine until the capacity passed the 137 GB limit.

Now the HD shows up as UNKNOWN 125 GB HD in "Computer Management" (within Adminstrative Tools).

So I uninstalled the harddrive from the secondary IDE, to my Win2000 Promise Ultra 100 TX2 IDE Controller that also holds my 160 GB Western Digital.

After rebooting, the HD shows up as UNKNOWN 250 GB HD in "Computer Management".

Is there any way to recover the data off of the HD ?

I installed MaxBlast3 (the software that came with the drive), and it seems like the only thing this program wants to do is repartition it.

Thanks!

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Update to Windows 2000 SP 4
  • psycho_klown66psycho_klown66 New
    edited September 2004
    primesuspect wrote:
    Update to Windows 2000 SP 4

    I'm running SP4.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    In computer mangement --> disk management if you right click on the UNKNOWN partition, do you have the ability to "import foreign disks"?
  • psycho_klown66psycho_klown66 New
    edited September 2004
    primesuspect wrote:
    In computer mangement --> disk management if you right click on the UNKNOWN partition, do you have the ability to "import foreign disks"?

    No... the only option that I have is Properties and Help. :(
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    That is bizarre. Do you have access to a computer running windows XP? If yes, try mounting the drive in another computer to see if you can access it...
  • psycho_klown66psycho_klown66 New
    edited September 2004
    I'm going to try one more restoration program and if it doesn't work, I'll move the HD to my XP machine. Thanks!
  • psycho_klown66psycho_klown66 New
    edited September 2004
    psycho_klown66 wrote:
    I'm going to try one more restoration program and if it doesn't work, I'll move the HD to my XP machine. Thanks!

    I have it installed on my XP SP1 Machine.

    Disk Management sees the drive as a 233 GB Unallocated disc. The only options that it's giving me is to create a new partition and format.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited September 2004
    Copied this from a different thread - it has saved my bacon, and at least one other S-M member as well:

    TestDisk might be worth a shot.
    TestDisk

    Description
    Tool to check and undelete partition
    Works with the following partitions:
    - FAT12 FAT16 FAT32
    - Linux EXT2/EXT3
    - Linux SWAP (version 1 and 2)
    - NTFS (Windows NT/W2K/XP)
    - BeFS (BeOS)
    - UFS (BSD)
    - Netware
    - ReiserFS

    TestDisk is under GNU Public License.
    It runs under

    DOS/Win9x
    Windows NT 4/2000/XP/2003
    Linux
    FreeBSD
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