SATA Hard Drive Factory Full Capacity Restore - Vista 64Bit

Western Digital SATA Hard Drive - 640GB
Vista Home Premium - 64Bit
Gateway desktop.

Would someone know of any utility or method to restore a SATA hard
drive's factory full capacity size? During partitioning my drive, it
went from 595GB (640GB Drive) to only 32GB. Since it is a 64-Bit system,
I can't find a utility to restore the drive's full capacity.


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Caxtin

Hi Caxti

Check on Western Digital web sit

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theog

Are you saying you only have one partition 32GB in size and no unused space
on the drive?


"Caxtin" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Western Digital SATA Hard Drive - 640GB
> Vista Home Premium - 64Bit
> Gateway desktop.
>
> Would someone know of any utility or method to restore a SATA hard
> drive's factory full capacity size? During partitioning my drive, it
> went from 595GB (640GB Drive) to only 32GB. Since it is a 64-Bit system,
> I can't find a utility to restore the drive's full capacity.
>
>
> --
> Caxtin

Already did. Called technical support, and was asked to download th
Acronis WD Edition. I tried, that did not work. I called again, we us
the same software and tried Vista's tool - no luck. Western Digita
could not fix their own hard drive. So now I am stuck until I find
utility that would do it. This ('HDDGURU: HDD Capacity Restore Tool
(http://hddguru.com/content/en/softwa...-Restore-Tool/)
is awesome, but it is for 32Bit (used it and it's great)

--
Caxtin

Did you try "Extend Volume" in Disk Management

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whs

Curious;1151307 Wrote:
> Are you saying you only have one partition 32GB in size and no unused
> space
> on the drive?
>
>
> "Caxtin" <> wrote in message
> news:...> > >
> > >
> > > Western Digital SATA Hard Drive - 640GB
> > > Vista Home Premium - 64Bit
> > > Gateway desktop.
> > >
> > > Would someone know of any utility or method to restore a SATA hard
> > > drive's factory full capacity size? During partitioning my drive, it
> > > went from 595GB (640GB Drive) to only 32GB. Since it is a 64-Bit
> > system,
> > > I can't find a utility to restore the drive's full capacity.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Caxtin > >

THATS CORRECT. No unused space to expand to. The BIOS and the tool
manager can only show 32GB and not the factory's 596GB.


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Caxtin

whs;1151301 Wrote:
> Did you try "Extend Volume" in Disk Management

No option to "Extend Volume" in my Vista's Disk Management

--
Caxtin

Then I suggest that you try reformatting the drive and again creating a
primary partition and reinstall your OS.

"Caxtin" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Curious;1151307 Wrote:
>> Are you saying you only have one partition 32GB in size and no unused
>> space
>> on the drive?
>>
>>
>> "Caxtin" <> wrote in message
>> news:...> > >
>> > >
>> > > Western Digital SATA Hard Drive - 640GB
>> > > Vista Home Premium - 64Bit
>> > > Gateway desktop.
>> > >
>> > > Would someone know of any utility or method to restore a SATA hard
>> > > drive's factory full capacity size? During partitioning my drive, it
>> > > went from 595GB (640GB Drive) to only 32GB. Since it is a 64-Bit
>> > system,
>> > > I can't find a utility to restore the drive's full capacity.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Caxtin > >
>
> THATS CORRECT. No unused space to expand to. The BIOS and the tool
> manager can only show 32GB and not the factory's 596GB.
>
>
> --
> Caxtin

whs;1151301 Wrote:
> Did you try "Extend Volume" in Disk Management
The "Extend Volume" is not active - it is greyed since the drive onl
has/shows 32GB

--
Caxtin

http://www.hdat2.com/might do the job.

Otherwise, can you remove the drive and attach it to a 32-bit Windows
system to run HDDGuru on it?


On 03/10/2009 19:34, Caxtin wrote:
> Already did. Called technical support, and was asked to download the
> Acronis WD Edition. I tried, that did not work. I called again, we use
> the same software and tried Vista's tool - no luck. Western Digital
> could not fix their own hard drive. So now I am stuck until I find a
> utility that would do it. This ('HDDGURU: HDD Capacity Restore Tool'
> (http://hddguru.com/content/en/softwa...-Restore-Tool/))
> is awesome, but it is for 32Bit (used it and it's great).
>
>