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Old 10-03-2009, 11:11 AM
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Re: SATA Hard Drive Factory Full Capacity Restore - Vista 64Bit

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


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> 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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Old 10-03-2009, 01:20 PM
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Re: SATA Hard Drive Factory Full Capacity Restore - Vista 64Bit

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

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> Curious;1151307 Wrote:[color=green]
>> Are you saying you only have one partition 32GB in size and no unused
>> space
>> on the drive?
>>
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>> "Caxtin" <guest@newsgroup-email.com> wrote in message
>> news:5c9311219648781370620e4c2f879ca8@newsgroup-gateway.com...> > >[color=darkred]
>> > >
>> > > 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 > >[/color][/color]
>
> 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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