Comments on: Restoring Factory Hard Drive Capacity http://blog.atola.com/restoring-factory-hard-drive-capacity/ Hard disk drive technology and data recovery stuff Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:39:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Richardd http://blog.atola.com/restoring-factory-hard-drive-capacity/#comment-67396 Richardd Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:39:33 +0000 http://blog.atola.com/restoring-factory-hard-drive-capacity/#comment-67396 HI, Cloned a Dell 60g laptop drive onto a 120g drive. now the new drive reads as 58g. Installed the new drive in dell desktop. The software sees the new drive and the boot drive. When I select the "new" drive, not the boot drive, it says that it is in use and manually remove from device manager. This does not work, as you need to reboot and xp re-installs the drive. I tried re-powering the drive, live without success. Any more suggestions? Thanks, Richard HI,
Cloned a Dell 60g laptop drive onto a 120g drive. now the new drive reads as 58g. Installed the new drive in dell desktop. The software sees the new drive and the boot drive. When I select the “new” drive, not the boot drive, it says that it is in use and manually remove from device manager. This does not work, as you need to reboot and xp re-installs the drive. I tried re-powering the drive, live without success. Any more suggestions?
Thanks,
Richard

]]> By: Scott G http://blog.atola.com/restoring-factory-hard-drive-capacity/#comment-65190 Scott G Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:39:11 +0000 http://blog.atola.com/restoring-factory-hard-drive-capacity/#comment-65190 Installed your program, but when I start it, all it says is "Please select the drive," but there is nothing to select? Help! Installed your program, but when I start it, all it says is “Please select the drive,” but there is nothing to select? Help!

]]> By: ROBERT BOKOR http://blog.atola.com/restoring-factory-hard-drive-capacity/#comment-64044 ROBERT BOKOR Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:28:49 +0000 http://blog.atola.com/restoring-factory-hard-drive-capacity/#comment-64044 I wanted to thank you VERY MUCH for your posted free HDD Capacity Restore program. Drive worked perfectly for 5 years until last week. I spent at least 20-30 hours on my own and with various tech supports, no one had the correct answer. Even Western Digital support had no tool to restore my drive to the original size! However, knowing it was a size reporting issue rather than corruption helped me word my Google Search and voila, I found your software. It was simple and solved the problem! Is there somewhere I can donate something as a thank you? In performing a back up I received many error messages in my log: Failed to copy source: Cannot copy file (23): Data error (cyclic redundancy check). The ones I checked so far are all mp3 files and when I go to play the original...continued... Note in I wanted to thank you VERY MUCH for your posted free HDD Capacity Restore program.

Drive worked perfectly for 5 years until last week. I spent at least 20-30 hours on my own and with various tech supports, no one had the correct answer. Even Western Digital support had no tool to restore my drive to the original size!

However, knowing it was a size reporting issue rather than corruption helped me word my Google Search and voila, I found your software. It was simple and solved the problem!

Is there somewhere I can donate something as a thank you? In performing a back up I received many error messages in my log: Failed to copy source: Cannot copy file (23): Data error (cyclic redundancy check). The ones I checked so far are all mp3 files and when I go to play the original…continued…

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]]> By: Doug http://blog.atola.com/restoring-factory-hard-drive-capacity/#comment-61657 Doug Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:11:27 +0000 http://blog.atola.com/restoring-factory-hard-drive-capacity/#comment-61657 Hi Just recovered a samsung story station 2 hard drive. Bought it as a 2 TB drive but it has only been 930 GB for the last year and a half. 2 mins with your software and it is 2TB again. You are a bloody legend whose face should be printed on money. Doug Hi

Just recovered a samsung story station 2 hard drive. Bought it as a 2 TB drive but it has only been 930 GB for the last year and a half. 2 mins with your software and it is 2TB again. You are a bloody legend whose face should be printed on money.

Doug

]]> By: Bruce http://blog.atola.com/restoring-factory-hard-drive-capacity/#comment-58503 Bruce Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:04:28 +0000 http://blog.atola.com/restoring-factory-hard-drive-capacity/#comment-58503 Ugh. I am having hell trying to just use this program. The disk I want to fix is always "in use by the operating system" no matter what services or programs I disable. I disable in XP device manager, and I must reboot, then XP just auto-reinstalls the driver for the disk and I get "In use" again. Tried in safe mode but can't use the program in safe mode. I tried installing xp to another machine but it only has 1 IDE channel, so I am stuck yet again. I have tried for 8 hours just to get your damn program to be able to work! Ugh! Isn't there a way to run this program as a standalone .exe or in safe mode?! Ugh. I am having hell trying to just use this program. The disk I want to fix is always “in use by the operating system” no matter what services or programs I disable. I disable in XP device manager, and I must reboot, then XP just auto-reinstalls the driver for the disk and I get “In use” again. Tried in safe mode but can’t use the program in safe mode. I tried installing xp to another machine but it only has 1 IDE channel, so I am stuck yet again.

I have tried for 8 hours just to get your damn program to be able to work! Ugh! Isn’t there a way to run this program as a standalone .exe or in safe mode?!

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