Suddenly Lost HDD Partition...

[Lightning983]

Hello,

Well i kind of have a big problem... when i was installing 2 new drives in my Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6, i hooked up one new drive to the Gigabyte SATA ports and one old drive (the added 2 ports, not the Intel ICH9R ones) and when i got into windows it said the drives have 32MB?!?

I tried returning the old drive to the Intel port but it still reads as 32MB and i can't get 931GB back in any way anymore... not to mention the 700GB of data i've lost.

Can anyone give me some hints what went wrong??

 

[Lightning983]

Okay, i have to express my very big dissatisfaction with Gigabyte. To be able to loose a partition simply by plugging it in another SATA port is not a good thing.

I lost the last 6 hours or so, and finally fixed it. Its something to do with Gigabyte & Samsung & 24bit adressing or something?? I don't quite understand it, but there's this tool HDAT2, which fixed all my problems.

Now i'm in the process of running "File Scavenger" to recover my lost files. And i'm guessing that's gonna take awhile.

Anyone knows if i can maybe just "rebuild" my MBR or something like that? Because i know i used to do that back in the days

Oh Well, any help is much appreciated.