Hello kind citizens of the internetz!
I ran into your small corner of the net by reading this thread:
.techspot.com/vb/topic9980.html
...which related directly to the absolutely stupid thing I have done.
I am a noob.
My power supply recently decided to die and so I thought it was a good opportunity to shift to a higher volume HD and perform some house keeping. The original HD I am referring to is an 80gb Hitachi Deskstar with the following pin options:
hitachigst.com/hdd/support/7k80/7k80jum.htm
For some reason, only known to God, or maybe Satan, I chose the 32gb pin option when assigning my Hitachi as the 'Master' drive in order to begin transfering data to my new 250gb 'Slave' drive. This instantly reduced my drives capacity from 80gb to 32gb... Eat you heart out Jenny Craig!!
The problem, and what I would like to ask your help with is the following...
The 80gb drive was not blank, it infact was full of my personal files! Music, images, videos, games, documents, EVERYTHING!! I now have approx 45gb of unalocated drive space which is in fact full of information!!
Can you please advise me of what the best course of action is to recover this information? Is there a quick fix whereby I can reattach this allocated space without formating it? I would be eternally greatfull for your assistance
Thank you in advance!
dettol
I ran into your small corner of the net by reading this thread:
.techspot.com/vb/topic9980.html
...which related directly to the absolutely stupid thing I have done.
I am a noob.
My power supply recently decided to die and so I thought it was a good opportunity to shift to a higher volume HD and perform some house keeping. The original HD I am referring to is an 80gb Hitachi Deskstar with the following pin options:
hitachigst.com/hdd/support/7k80/7k80jum.htm
For some reason, only known to God, or maybe Satan, I chose the 32gb pin option when assigning my Hitachi as the 'Master' drive in order to begin transfering data to my new 250gb 'Slave' drive. This instantly reduced my drives capacity from 80gb to 32gb... Eat you heart out Jenny Craig!!
The problem, and what I would like to ask your help with is the following...
The 80gb drive was not blank, it infact was full of my personal files! Music, images, videos, games, documents, EVERYTHING!! I now have approx 45gb of unalocated drive space which is in fact full of information!!
Can you please advise me of what the best course of action is to recover this information? Is there a quick fix whereby I can reattach this allocated space without formating it? I would be eternally greatfull for your assistance
Thank you in advance!
dettol