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Western Digital Cavier Green 1Tb reading as 33.4MB
Hi all,
I recently plugged a Western Digital Cavier Green (Model WDC WD10EADS-11M2B1) into an old motherboard (Gigabyte GA-M51GM-S2G) and noticed that the Hard drive capacity had shrunk from 1000GB to 33.4MB
Apparently, the Gigabyte motherboard has an Xpress Recovery
BIOS. The BIOS writes a backup copy of itself to the top end of the
drive and then hides itself in a small HPA. Unfortunately there is a bug
in the BIOS which incorrectly adjusts the drive's capacity. This
results in 1TB drives being truncated to 31/32/33MB, 1.5TB are reduced
to 500GB, and 2TB drives shrink to 1TB.
So after reading this I attempted to recover the capacity using a collection of tools called Hirens Boot CD, but no luck,
If ANYONE has any advice of how could I restore them back to 1000GB (This happened twice, also on a Samsung 1TB HDD) please reply as this is 2000GB of space I desperately need!!!
Thank you all in advanced :)