I have also used "write zeros" function using Western Digital Data Lifegaurd software. I've even tried resetting the BIOS ermoving the batt and shorting the pins. But still the BIOS reports the same 137 Gigabit capcaity. I did the formatting once and also erased the boot sector as per the Hitachi DFT software. Tht's the sole intention of posting this problem on a new thread. Now I am prepared to low level format my SATA hard drive and recover the lost space, which is 153 Gigabytes in full capcacity as recorded when I built this system initially about 6 weeks back. I used to run Windows XP (32 bit) with SP2 then without any problems ! And it was only when i got a copy of Windows 64 bit and I wanted to try it out on ma AMD64, I had to let my system boot using the DVD Writer, which was unfortunately a total mess up with BIOS.įollowing this soup with RAID and BIOS as mentioned in my other post I have noticed that the hard drive reports only 128 GBytes in Windows Disk Managemnt and as 137.44 GBits in BIOS, currently.įorget the RAID mess I have done. Meaning it got detected at 153 GBytes capcity in Windows Disk Management and 164 GBits in BIOS iniitally. No the thing is rvnguy, this SATA hard drive worked correctly when I set this up for the first time. Transtec RE: How do I low level format a Hitachi SATA disk ? rvnguy (TechnicalUser) 8 Jan 06 05:01 It still says that the hard drive is 137.44 Gigabits in size ? What is worng here ? What should i do about it ? Anymore low level format tools to try ?
Even after a successfully completed low level format ( as reported by the Hitachi software ) I still cant get the original size of my SATA hard disk. I tried "erasing the disk" and "erase boot sector" options. I used the software from Hitachi site to do this. Thinking that my "messing around with RAID" has hacked the bootsector of this SATA drive, I have now decided to backup the data to my other IDE hard disk and do a low level format. It's all in this thread h ttp://om/viewthr ead.cfm?qi d=1170976& amp page=1 Although my hard drive is a 160 GB Hitachi Deskstar SATA disk, it seems to report only 137 Gigabits in BIOS and hence in Windows as well, due to my messing around. I have messed around wit my SATA hard drive by enabling and disabling RAID function on my nForce4 mobo. I seem to have run into a curious problem.
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