Få din 200GB HD til å lagre 510GB

[chris_83]

Artikkel from http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14597

 

 

Unused space on hard drives recovered?

 

Hidden partitions revealed

 

 

By INQUIRER staff: Tuesday 09 March 2004, 14:33

 

READER WILEY SILER has sent us a method which he said was discovered by Scott Komblue and documented by himself which they claim can recover unused areas of the hard drive in the form of hidden partitions.

We haven't tried this here at the INQUIRER, and would caution readers that messing with your hard drive is done at your own peril and very likely breaches your warranty. Here is what Wiley and Scott did. µ

 

* UPDATE Does this work? We're not going to try it on our own machine thank you very much. Instead, we're waiting for a call from a hard drive company so we can get its take on these claims.

 

Required items

Ghost 2003 Build 2003.775 (Be sure not to allow patching of this software) 2 X Hard Drives (OS must be installed on both.) For sake of clarity we will call the drive we are trying to expand (T) in this document (means Target for partition recover). The drive you use every day, I assume you have one that you want to keep as mater with your current OS and data, will be the last dive we install in this process and will be called (X) as it is your original drive.

 

1. Install the HDD you wish to recover the hidden partitions (hard drive T) on as the master drive in your system with a second drive as a slave (you can use Hard Drive X if you want to). Any drive will do as a slave since we will not be writing data to it. However, Ghost must see a second drive in order to complete the following steps. Also, be sure hard drive T has an OS installed on it You must ensure that the file system type is the same on both drive (NTFS to NTFS or FAT32 to FAT32, etc)

 

2. Install Ghost 2003 build 2003.775 to hard drive T with standard settings. Reboot if required.

 

3. Open Ghost and select Ghost Basic. Select Backup from the shown list of options. Select C:\ (this is the drive we want to free partition on on hard drive T) as our source for the backup. Select our second drive as the target. (no data will be written so worry not). Use any name when requested as it will not matter. Press OK, Continue, or Next until you are asked to reboot.

 

Critical step

4. Once reboot begins, you must shutdown the PC prior to the loading of DOS or any drivers. The best method is to power down the PC manually the moment you see the BIOS load and your HDDs show as detected.

 

5. Now that you have shutdown prior to allowing Ghost to do its backup, you must remove the HDD we are attempting to expand (hard drive T which we had installed as master) and replace it with a drive that has an OS installed on it. (This is where having hard drive X is useful. You can use your old hard drive to complete the process.) Place hard drive T as a secondary drive in the system. Hard drive X should now be the master and you should be able to boot into the OS on it. The best method for this assuming you need to keep data from and old drive is:

 

Once you boot into the OS, you will see that the second drive in the system is the one we are attempting to expand (hard drive T). Go to Computer Management -> Disk Management

 

You should see an 8 meg partition labeled VPSGHBOOT or similar on the slave HDD (hard drive T) along with a large section of unallocated space that did not show before. DO NOT DELETE VPSGHBOOT yet.

 

6. Select the unallocated space on our drive T and create a new primary or extended partition. Select the file system type you prefer and format with quick format (if available). Once formatting completes, you can delete the VPSGHBOOT partition from the drive.

 

7. Here is what you should now see on your T drive.

 

a. Original partition from when the drive still had hidden partitions

b. New partition of space we just recovered.

c. 8 meg unallocated partitions.

 

8. Do you want to place drive T back in a PC and run it as the primary HDD? Go to Disk Management and set the original partition on T (not the new one we just formatted) to and Active Partition. It should be bootable again if no data corruption has occurred.

 

Caution

Do not try to delete both partitions on the drive so you can create one large partition. This will not work. You have to leave the two partitions separate in order to use them. Windows disk management will have erroneous data in that it will say drive size = manus stated drive size and then available size will equal ALL the available space with recovered partitions included.

 

This process can cause a loss of data on the drive that is having its partitions recovered so it is best to make sure the HDD you use is not your current working HDD that has important data. If you do this on your everyday drive and not a new drive with just junk on it, you do so at your own risk. It has worked completely fine with no loss before and it has also lost the data on the drive before. Since the idea is to yield a huge storage drive, it should not matter.

 

Interesting results to date:

Western Digital 200GB SATA

Yield after recovery: 510GB of space

 

IBM Deskstar 80GB EIDE

Yield after recovery: 150GB of space

 

Maxtor 40GB EIDE

Yield after recovery: 80GB

 

Seagate 20GB EIDE

Yield after recovery: 30GB

 

Unknown laptop 80GB HDD

Yield: 120GB

[chris_83]

"EGO mouse" fra et annet forum har testet det...

 

Well i just tried this on a spare 30GB harddrive and well. It seems to work it made a new partition of 20GB

 

Well i'm just installing Win2000 onit to see how stable it is but so far so good. Set-up found the new partition and windows set-up is running just fine.

 

I'll keep you posted on results i find.

[Myrsve]

dette må jeg prøve med min gamle harddisk

[Malvado]

Venter til noen har fått testet dette grundig ut, er sikkert bare en feil i programvaren...

 

Tviler sterkt på at WD gidder å selge en 720Gb Hd som en 200Gb Hd hvis det da ikke er for å sammle info om oss : konspirasjonsteori...

[chris_83]

det ble ikke en 720GB hd men 510GB

[eatshorts]

Noe lignende skjedde med meg på søndag. Jeg kjørte en wd120gb og en seagate 120gb i raid 0 via highpoint chippen på hovedkortet. Kulelageret på wden røyk i går

et halvt år etter at garantien gikk ut

Når jeg fjernet denne satte jeg seagate disken i en vanlig ide port og formaterte denne med acronis partition expert. Nå har jeg nesten 200GB fordelt på fire partisjoner, hverken chkdisk eller acronis pe finner noen feil når jeg scanner den.

[Åsmund]

jeg vet windows ikke utnytter plassen bra på hardisker, men dette tar kaka.

[jokki]

wow

dette må noen teste, har ingen riktig gamle harddisker jeg tør å teste på selv.

[atrax]

Kildekritikk folkens!! The Inquirer

[Asbjørn²]

Dette er for godt til å være sant. Disken kan nok ikke lagre mer enn før, den bare viser mer. Tar jeg feil?

[jokki]

Kildekritikk folkens!! The Inquirer

var noen på et annet forum som hadde testet dette, men ja dette bør tas med en klype salt.

[phnx85]

Hvis dette fungere så er jeg overlykkelig! Har 4 x 120GB disker som da blir 4 x 220GB (?) = 880GB

[Kultom]

hørtes veldig skummelt ut... *føle at han blir litt lurt her*

[phnx85]

Jeg har mange harddisker liggende som stammer fra xboxer. Jeg kan teste på jobb i morgen hvis jeg får tid.

[Keejay]

Hadde vært greit om dette hadde virka da!

(Holder på å gå tom for plass... )

[Roskov]

en skulle nesten tro at det bare er partisjons størrelsen som blir vist feil

av en eller annen grunn.

[ZoLaMont]

Hmm.. sjekke kalender... Nei, ikke 1. april, Da må det jo være sant. JIPPI!

[Brugle]

Tviler på at dette funker...

[T.F.T]

Noen kan vel teste og se...

 

Jeg tar ikke sjansen.

[Mushaboom]

Høres litt tviltsomt ut.

Blir jo nesten overklokking av HDD