250 GB HDD partitioning blues...

[~Phenom~]

Hi guys,
i have seagate 250 GB HDD . I recently was trying to install slackware 11.0 and messed up everything. I think it was something like two active partitions were created. Now , I wanna repartition my HDD but seagate disk manager is showing only 137 GB and also says that the MBR is being redirected to another record. I know its something related to 48 bit LBA but I wanna know what is the solution ??? I want to completely format my disk , make it as a new HDD is and repartition it . Which software do I use ?? I have already tried seagate disk manager and seagate disc wizard.

My PC config is :
P4 2.4 GHz
Intel D845GVSR
512 MB RAM
250 GB seagate HDD.

Please guys help.

 

[casanova]

Paragon Partition Magic might help you. U shud first delete the logical partitions, then the extended partition and finally delete the primary partition. I hope this helps

 

[mehulved]

Phenom did you manage to get back the data?

 

[~Phenom~]

^^no yaar, I lost every single bit of my precious data.

 

[casanova]

U can use FileScavenger to get back the data if u using windows.

 

[DukeNukem]

Hi guys,
i have seagate 250 GB HDD . I recently was trying to install slackware 11.0 and messed up everything. I think it was something like two active partitions were created. Now , I wanna repartition my HDD but seagate disk manager is showing only 137 GB and also says that the MBR is being redirected to another record. I know its something related to 48 bit LBA but I wanna know what is the solution ??? I want to completely format my disk , make it as a new HDD is and repartition it . Which software do I use ?? I have already tried seagate disk manager and seagate disc wizard.

My PC config is :
P4 2.4 GHz
Intel D845GVSR
512 MB RAM
250 GB seagate HDD.

Please guys help.

simply use the bootable XPSP2 cd to fdisk and format your HDD.

or attach your HDD to the pc of some friends of yours who have installed the XPSP2 to create partitions and and formating through disk management

 

[mehulved]

If you want to use slackware only then just use fdisk in there and go around. It may take a few tries but you'll get hang of it.

 

[~Phenom~]

@dukenukem , if i delete all partitions by attaching it to my friends pc having XPSP2, will it also delete the MBR of my disk??? coz there is also some problem in MBR as said by seagate disk manager , so i want to delete eveything including MBR of my disk , to make it as new HDD comes from company, please reply...
@mehul , i also need windows for my projects.
@sam9s , yes.

 

[casanova]

I dont think so. Even if it is deleted or ur mbr is corrupted u can copy the mbr from ur friends hdd and replace ur mbr with it. Just came across this proggy.

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[DukeNukem]

@dukenukem , if i delete all partitions by attaching it to my friends pc having XPSP2, will it also delete the MBR of my disk??? coz there is also some problem in MBR as said by seagate disk manager , so i want to delete eveything including MBR of my disk , to make it as new HDD comes from company, please reply...

Brother i went through the same thing an year back
better option is to use the bootable CD of the XPSP2, do not use the SDM as its not ok for 120GB+HDD Drives (there's nothing wrong with your HDD, its just SDM is not able to understand your hdd's current state)

if you do not have the bootable XPSP2 then delete all your partitions using your normal XP boot CD (as there are chances that your friends PC Windows fail to regognise the HDD attach and fail to boot completly LOL (hangs on welcome screen) ) then attach the HDD to your friends PC and make it brand new by fdisking nad formating it.

 

[mehulved]

phenom from what I get, you want to format the whole disk now? Then create partitions using fdisk, and leave partition(s) empty for windows, install windows there, then again boot with slackware DVD, then run setup, this time you needn't run fdisk again. And no worries of anymore data loss.

 

[~Phenom~]

ok , i will try arrange XPSP2 bootable CD and try to solve the problem. Also i messed up with my MOBO settings while trying to solve the size limit problem , is there any way to revert them to default settings. ????
@mehul , u got it right.

 

[s18000rpm]

you mean you messed in BIOS?

if yes, boot into BIOS & in "Exit" tab/page select "Load Optimal Defaults".

 

[DukeNukem]

ok , i will try arrange XPSP2 bootable CD and try to solve the problem. Also i messed up with my MOBO settings while trying to solve the size limit problem , is there any way to revert them to default settings. ????
@mehul , u got it right.

try above mentioned method
or cut the food supply (remove battery) for about 5-10 minutes of your mb (or if you have jumper settings do it ) for all defaults.

 

[~Phenom~]

ok , will try and tell ya what happened.

 

[assasin]

Download Drive fitness test from the link below

*www.softpedia.com/progDownload/IBM--Hitachi-Drive-Fitness-Test-Download-3966.html

Write the iso image onto a CD and boot from it.check ur hdd and if u want DFT can delete ur whole HDD.