[SOLVED] Possible bricked HDD

[adonix45]

My brother used a Linux live cd with Gparted to format his hdd.
But it seems he done something wrong.
Now the HDD is showing 149.05 GB out of 160 GB.
What to do?
THANKS.

 

[USAFRet]

My brother used a Linux live cd with Gparted to format his hdd.
But it seems he done something wrong.
Now the HDD is showing 149.05 GB out of 160 GB.
What to do?
THANKS.

For a drive advertised as 160GB, "149GB" is exactly what the OS will report.

Nothing is wrong, no space is "lost".
Base 10 vs Base 2.
Human vs Computer.

https://www.gbmb.org/gib-to-gb

Convert GiB to gigabyte - Conversion of Measurement Units

Do a quick conversion: 1 gibibytes = 1.073741824 gigabytes using the online calculator for metric conversions. Check the chart for more details.

www.convertunits.com

 

[adonix45]

For a drive advertised as 160GB, "149GB" is exactly what the OS will report.

Nothing is wrong, no space is "lost".
Base 10 vs Base 2.
Human vs Computer.

https://www.gbmb.org/gib-to-gb

Convert GiB to gigabyte - Conversion of Measurement Units

Do a quick conversion: 1 gibibytes = 1.073741824 gigabytes using the online calculator for metric conversions. Check the chart for more details.

www.convertunits.com

Thanks,but i he now pressed ''Create new partition table''.
And now the drive shows only 80 KB.... it that fixable ?

 

[USAFRet]

Thanks,but i he now pressed ''Create new partition table''.
And now the drive shows only 80 KB.... it that fixable ?

Assuming this is now on a Windows platform, please show us a screencap of the Disk Management window.

 

[adonix45]

Assuming this is now on a Windows platform, please show us a screencap of the Disk Management window.

It's formatted disk,only shows 80 KB ... i see only those KB's.
Do you need screenshot ?

Edit: i see it from PartedMagic's live cd and Gparted.

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, a screencap of Disk Management, so that we're all on the same page.

 

[adonix45]

Yes, a screencap of Disk Management, so that we're all on the same page.

Ok.give me 5 mins.

 

[adonix45]

I've also tryed to install Windows 10,but got error with no enough space ....
I found problem with same as mine here :

https://askubuntu.com/questions/518722/gparted-cant-create-partition-partition-table

 

[USAFRet]

I've also tryed to install Windows 10,but got error with no enough space ....

During this install, did you DELETE all existing partitions and continue with a totally blank drive?
Windows will reformat as needed.

Assuming the drive still works.

 

[adonix45]

I fixed it from Ubuntu live cd.
Just formatted the whole HDD using the disk utility tool and then i was able to install Windows.

 

[USAFRet]

I fixed it from Ubuntu live cd.
Just formatted the whole HDD using the disk utility tool and then i was able to install Windows.

And now Disk Management shows 149GB?
(as it should)