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What size hard drive did the BIOS see it as before you upgraded? I'm guessing around 127gb. If so, what happened is the OS finally trampled over that boundry enough, and probably wrote data to a critical area of the drive accidently, like the partition table area

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It was 137GB. What you're describing sounds along the lines of what I figured happened. Do you know of such a tool for rebuilding NTFS partition tables manually? I suppose I'll have to track one down.

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The recovery utility running now, is that writing it back to the drive, or to another drive?

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Well right now it's doing neither. It's the freeware version of the tool that just scans and tells you what it *could* restore if using the full version. The full version would restore to a different drive, because obviously it would be silly to restore to the same.

Thanks.