Confuscious Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 I have a harddisk which is marked as 60 gb. But I tried to format the harddisk with several packages, and they say all the the harddisk is only 20gb. How can I restore this disk to it's normal capacity? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaiMaai Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Clean the disk using diskpart? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confuscious Posted September 1, 2020 Author Share Posted September 1, 2020 1 minute ago, JaiMaai said: Clean the disk using diskpart? Tried already. Partition says 20 gb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaiMaai Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-format-storage-drive-using-diskpart-windows-10 Be very careful trying to use this and make sure you work on the correct disk. If you cleabn the wrong one you could wipe your system, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaiMaai Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 1 minute ago, Confuscious said: Tried already. Partition says 20 gb Posted again just before I saw your reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confuscious Posted September 1, 2020 Author Share Posted September 1, 2020 1 minute ago, JaiMaai said: Posted again just before I saw your reply. With the program "Testdisk", the program shows that the values for the partition are wrong (Heads & Sectors). But this program doesn't allow to write the exact values for the partition. The only way to achieve this would be to use a program to alter the partition information. The way old MFM hard disk were formatted. But I did not find any program who can do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confuscious Posted September 1, 2020 Author Share Posted September 1, 2020 6 minutes ago, JaiMaai said: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-format-storage-drive-using-diskpart-windows-10 Be very careful trying to use this and make sure you work on the correct disk. If you cleabn the wrong one you could wipe your system, I don't mind if the hard disk is lost in this operation. I only want to know if this is possible. In the old days of DOS, you were supposed to enter the number of heads/Cylinders when partitioning a hard disk. There should be a way to do this on this disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaiMaai Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 9 minutes ago, Confuscious said: I don't mind if the hard disk is lost in this operation. I only want to know if this is possible. In the old days of DOS, you were supposed to enter the number of heads/Cylinders when partitioning a hard disk. There should be a way to do this on this disk. Diskpart (should) be able to do it all. I've used it before to do similar fixes, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confuscious Posted September 1, 2020 Author Share Posted September 1, 2020 8 minutes ago, JaiMaai said: Diskpart (should) be able to do it all. I've used it before to do similar fixes, Which version of Diskpart did you use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JoePai Posted September 1, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 1, 2020 Dump it and buy one with a half decent capacity - so cheap these days 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heppinger Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Open cmd as Administrator type- - diskpart - list disk - select disk ? - clean - create partition primary - list partiton - select partition ? - format fs=fat32 quick - active - exit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confuscious Posted September 1, 2020 Author Share Posted September 1, 2020 4 minutes ago, Heppinger said: Open cmd as Administrator type- - diskpart - list disk - select disk ? - clean - create partition primary - list partiton - select partition ? - format fs=fat32 quick - active - exit Partition = 20 gb How to change this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heppinger Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Just now, Confuscious said: Partition = 20 gb How to change this? I would have to say its a faulty disk, where did you get it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heppinger Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 2 minutes ago, Confuscious said: Partition = 20 gb How to change this? If i were you i wouldn't worry to much, as the disk is basically worthless, unless your doing this for a hobby and learning process of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logosone Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 EaseUS Partition master could be the answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confuscious Posted September 1, 2020 Author Share Posted September 1, 2020 5 minutes ago, Heppinger said: If i were you i wouldn't worry to much, as the disk is basically worthless, unless your doing this for a hobby and learning process of course "unless your doing this for a hobby and learning process of course" = exactly. I see many sellers in Facebook and Lazada who uses the same trick to sell 64GB memory cards which are in fact only 8 gb. They change the information at the low-level to display 64gb when inserted in your computer, but with programs as Testdisk it show that they are only 8gb memory cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heppinger Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 4 minutes ago, Logosone said: EaseUS Partition master could be the answer. This is basically the same as control panel/ system and security/ administrative tools/ create and format hard disk partitions. If a clean in diskpart wont rectify it then I'd say the disk is faulty, It probably didn't pass QC at the factory and the boss told Jimmy Wong to throw all the faulty drives in the dumpster as DELL can't use them in their PC's, yet Jimmy had other plans. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2 is 1 Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Forget it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heppinger Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 4 minutes ago, Confuscious said: "unless your doing this for a hobby and learning process of course" = exactly. I see many sellers in Facebook and Lazada who uses the same trick to sell 64GB memory cards which are in fact only 8 gb. They change the information at the low-level to display 64gb when inserted in your computer, but with programs as Testdisk it show that they are only 8gb memory cards. Yes true, but most of these fake drives were intended to be the "stamped" size, yet are faulty during manufacturing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worgeordie Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 It's 12 years old, better to buy a new 120 GB SSD, from 505 THB on Shopee or Lazada regards worgeordie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mrfill Posted September 1, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 1, 2020 Its a 20gb drive. Useless for almost everything now. I'd install it in the cylindrical device in the corner - the one that holds the junk mail and crisp packets and go and buy a new SSD or even a USB stick. The time you are spending on a 14 year old knackered drive is worth far more than a new USB stick. I doubt the original drive is hacked to show 60gb from 20gb. Its just not worth it for that small increase. The drive is dead, it is an ex-drive, it should be pushing up the daisies and visiting the choir invisible..... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfill Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 5 minutes ago, worgeordie said: It's 12 years old, better to buy a new 120 GB SSD, from 505 THB on Shopee or Lazada regards worgeordie Welcome to 2018. I don't want to worry you but I'd buy a lot of gold and shares in face mask companies..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy72 Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 (edited) sounds like to you have a linux or Mac partitioned disc which windows sometimes cannot see download something onto USB and boot into it or get this for windows and examine drivehttps://ext2-volume-manager.en.lo4d.com/windows its most certainly not a fake or faulty disc no one would waste their time its old but 60gb still function able if we treated Forum members the way we treat hardware most would be buried by now Edited September 1, 2020 by andy72 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigT73 Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Gparted, download iso and install on usb. Start your system via bios then usb. Gparted will detect all attached disks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metropolitian Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 What info does the bios give you about the harddisk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howto Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Any adj/change/fix to a HDD C/H/S must be done in the BIOS, cannot be done with a partition manager. The BIOS queries the HDD at POST (and usually) gets the info from the HDD controller. Usually the BIOS is set to AUTO, but one can manually set C/H/S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heppinger Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 1 hour ago, mrfill said: Its a 20gb drive. Useless for almost everything now. I'd install it in the cylindrical device in the corner - the one that holds the junk mail and crisp packets and go and buy a new SSD or even a USB stick. The time you are spending on a 14 year old knackered drive is worth far more than a new USB stick. I doubt the original drive is hacked to show 60gb from 20gb. Its just not worth it for that small increase. The drive is dead, it is an ex-drive, it should be pushing up the daisies and visiting the choir invisible..... Good for a separate page file, then again being only a 5400rpm drive it's not even really good for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heppinger Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Metropolitian said: What info does the bios give you about the harddisk? very little. diskpart using command prompt is all you need. Edited September 1, 2020 by Heppinger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confuscious Posted September 1, 2020 Author Share Posted September 1, 2020 4 minutes ago, howto said: Any adj/change/fix to a HDD C/H/S must be done in the BIOS, cannot be done with a partition manager. The BIOS queries the HDD at POST (and usually) gets the info from the HDD controller. Usually the BIOS is set to AUTO, but one can manually set C/H/S. How do I access the HD BIOS? Change it to C/H/S? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howto Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 5 hours ago, Confuscious said: How do I access the HD BIOS? Change it to C/H/S? My apologies, I should have been more clear ,,, the Computer's BIOS, laptop or desktop ,,, (you can't access the HDD BIOS directly) - the HDD must be connected - At Power ON, One presses a key (depends on make/model) - BIOS screen usually has several tabs, look thru them. - The HDD will (should) be listed - It should be set to "AUTO" I must urge CAUTION with changing, and manually entering C/H/S. - SAVE THE SETTINGS, - EXIT, system will reboot (should) - I usually wait for the computer to finish booting then SHUTDOWN - POWER ON, let system finish booting - NOW ONE MAY - - Check the disk params - - partition disk and format the partition Best wishes - howto 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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