Restoring Factory Hard Drive Capacity

Restoring Factory Hard Drive Capacity

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  Check hard drive jumpers. Consult with the manufacturer's instructions or online support to set jumpers to the correct positions. If jumpers aren't set correctly, you could be sacrificing hard drive capacity.

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  Check disk partitions. Run the Windows Disk Management console to see if there is any extra space that is not used in any partition. A program like Partition Magic can also help you accomplish this task. Running "fdisk" from DOS can also show your computer's partitions and free space. You'll need your Windows CD or a startup diskette to start the computer in DOS (if your computer even has a diskette drive anymore). If you do find a large chunk of free space that is not included in any partition, you can format it and it will be usable in Windows as a second or third partition.

• 3

  Download the HDD Capacity Restore utility and install it. When the program loads, click on the hard drive in the device list and the program will auto-restore your factory capacity by restoring LBA48, HPA and DCO settings to defaults.

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Restoring Factory Hard Drive Capacity

Hi,

You need to delete all the partitions that were made on the hard drive and have it formatted to obtain back all of its space like it was new. You have several options on how to format the hard drive. You can have an operating system installer and use its disk partitioning tool to have all the partitions deleted and then have the entire hard drive formatted using what file system you might prefer. You can connect the hard drive to a system (as slave/secondary drive) that already has a running operating system then use that operating system’s disc management tool to format the hard drive.

Thank you. Hope this helps.

Clair june