Hard Disk Drive - EISA Configuration - Using 80GB?!?

Gareth

Gareth

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Hi all, on my media center, I have a lot of saved television on this hard disk drive, and somehow, it went to 'EISA Configuration', I can't read the drive, nor can I format it. It is using a full 80GB HDD and the thing is, I built the PC myself, I did not put no EISA configurations on it, like Dell, Acer, IBM etc do. Does anybody know how I can get back on to this drive, to get my data off it, and then format it, as when I right click on it, I get 1 tab, and that is 'help'.

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I think that means that it somehow is a recovery partition. But i've never seen one that big before. Maybe someone else can verify that.
 
If you do a google search on eisa configuration, you'll find that its either a recovery partition or utility partition that some name brand companies use for their utilities. If you built this yourself chances are the installation got hosed up or something. IF you only have one hard drive in the system you would need to remove that partition and do a fresh install, thats what i would do anyway. You should be able to remove in disk management or by booting to the installation cd and deleting it there before installing windows.
 
Where did you get the 80GB from?

Anyway, you should be able to delete it with partition magic or gparted or something.
 
Ohh its an old one, I got it about 5 years ago at PC World, its a Western Digital IDE HDD. Its been perfectly fine since, and then it just went into this EISA Configuration. I seriously need this data off the drive :(
 
I used Killdisk and deleted the full partition, I lost all of my data, but the drive is now usable.
 
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