June 16, 200917 yr I got this problem the other day my External harddrive went from 1000gb to 512 KB, and now it looks like this.Download attached file its a JPG file (150kb)The model is wd10000h1cs-00Any help would be appreciated
June 16, 200917 yr Have you tried connecting it to another PC or another OS on that PC? Or boot using a LiveCD, a Win PE cd or NTFSDOS to see if it sees the proper size.
June 16, 200917 yr how does it show up in "my computer"? did you have any data on it? did you lose the data? how does it show up on disk management?
June 17, 200917 yr Author Have you tried connecting it to another PC or another OS on that PC? Or boot using a LiveCD, a Win PE cd or NTFSDOS to see if it sees the proper size.Yes tryed my laptop and multimedia its the same.how does it show up in "my computer"? did you have any data on it? did you lose the data? how does it show up on disk management?1)Its not assigned anymore, so cant see it.2)Yes i had data on it. 3)The data mayb be lost, it wasnt important data. 4)It shows up as i can initialize disk, and when i do that it says that the media drive is protected.Another thing i have taken out the haddrive from the case so the warrenty is gone. Iv tryed Sata and USB connection its the same.
June 22, 200917 yr Author guest nobody has a solution for this?, maybe it would be able to flash with the firmware from the solution, members do with the Seagates?
June 22, 200917 yr guest nobody has a solution for this?, maybe it would be able to flash with the firmware from the solution, members do with the Seagates?Would you put some gasoline in a diesel engine because that's what other people do with their (gasoline) engine?or would you put some diesel fuel in a gasoline engine because that's what other people do with their (diesel) engine? What happens using the Manufacturer's (WD in your case) diagnostic utilities?http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?lang=enhttp://support.wdc.com/product/download.as...mp;x=14&y=3Or is that where the screenshot you posted comes from?Have you tried accessing it with Victoria or mhdd:http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.03-Victoria/http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/Or maybe some other tool here:http://hddguru.com/Even this:http://blog.atola.com/restoring-factory-hard-drive-capacity/(WITHOUT actually pressing the "Restore Capacity" button) may give some hint about what is happening.At a more "high" level, have you tried running TESTDISK:http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDiskon it?jaclaz
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