2 jumpers on one drive...

[par0thead151]

I accidentaly put 2 jumpers on the same hard drive, and now it wants to tell me that the drive is unformated and a 36 gb drive not a 120 gb drive...
what gives?
did i fry something?
or are the jumpers just messed up still?
i only have 1 jumper on once i figured out that there were 2 on the same drive.

 

[OldMX]

Not fried, but since you messed with the drive capacity limits the stored information is now gone i bet

Just remove the extra jumper and set the disk with the installation manual or printed instructions, then recreate partitions and reformat

oldmx

 

[par0thead151]

f***
i just lost one hard drive due to its failure...
and now this stoopid move.
god i hate looseing data!

 

[par0thead151]

so there is nothing i can do to get this drive back?
i can see it in the computer managment window under disk managment. it shows up as a healthy 111.78 gb partition. i just cant explore the contents and it does not show up in my computer
edit:
now it does show up in my computer(after changeing the drive letter) and it says
D:\ is not accessible. the file or directory is corupt and unreadable.
would a file recoverey tool be able ot save the data on this drive?

 

[Javelin3o4]

most of the time using 2 jumpers on one drive such as a western digital is for special settings such as cylinder limiting which is for using it on systems that cannot recognize larger drivers, have you tried just removing the jumper?

try running from command promp chkdsk /r on that particular drive.

 

[par0thead151]

the drive is a segate 120 gb drive.
i wil try the command prompt after class today, as well as a file recoverey program.
hanks for the tip

 

[par0thead151]

i tried accessing it through dos, and i could not get a directory up.
i will try the file recoverey now and see if it wil be more successful..

easy recovery pro saved my ass this time...
i got my files back