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Old 31-01-2009, 01:48 AM   #33 (permalink)
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Re: Samsung Spinpoint F DT HD103UJ - capacity error

Originally Posted by Pamhad View Post
I have the same problem as rTU - I bought two of these disks - one was perfect, the other DOA. The replacement for the DOA is giving me the capacity problem and the error when I try and use the tool to restore factory capacity

Did anyone find a resolution for this or should I just send this one back too?
OK, just in case anyone else has the same problem. When I tried the trick of removing the power after selecting the drive,it worked! I managed to format the drive successfully but when I plugged my first disk back in (the one that was originally fine) it was now showing 32 meg even though I had previously formatted it with no problems and had loaded about 300 gig of data on it. Um.

Finally had to admit it was a motherboard problem rather than a disk problem so I bit the bullet and bought a new MSI motherboard and replaced the gigabyte one I had in there. Bingo! The capacity restore facility worked first time, my data was intact (phew) and now both disks are functioning perfectly.
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