1tb hard drive

[falafael]

i,ve just out in a new 1TB hard drive, that takes it upto 4 hard drives i have now in the computer, however, when i first switch on the computer, it sees the new hitachi 1tb drive, but as soon as windows loads up, its not appearing in the 'computer' section, also if i got to device manager, its there, and it says its working properly??????
If i even go to add new hardware, it finds nothing??, is there something i have missed out??? can't remember being this awkward when i put my 500gig one in!!
Any ideas??????

 

[MartialAnt]

Its called Karma. Karma for having too many HD's when people like me only have a 40gig & 120gig.
Give me your 500gig & then good Karma will let your 1titty byte work.

 

[BrewStew]

my recollection of windows is now fading as i've used linux for a few years now, but here's a few things i can suggest to check

bios... have a look there and make sure it's got it... although by it saying that is got it at the bootup suggests it sees it... but has it got it right? i've had one hard drive that always got the sector amounts wrong and i only got half the space unless i told it otherwise (despite having the jumper settings right)

the second is check the jumpers on the drive if it's IDE, making sure it's on the right primary or slave setting... although i assume it's a SATA drive as IDE is fading out therefore it wont have them.

the last thing i can suggest is to go to your control panel, administrative tools, and computer management. look at the drives section and check if it's mounted and what Filesystem it's formatted to.. if your running windows a big hard drive like that is better off with NTFS. you can also double check what drive letter it's mounted to and change or redo it as necessary.

hope all that helps mate :thumb:

 

[falafael]

will look into that now, so, does it matter how many hard drives you can run???, or is there a limit?, at moment, am running a 120gig, a 250gig, a 500gig, and now a 1TB!, is that too much?

 

[BrewStew]

ah!

now that you mention it... yes it does matter how many drives at once your running... your power supply can only cope with so much... i've got 3000gb across 4 HD's in my server on a 700watt power supply... if i add another hard drive it goes all screwy!

sorry mate i missed the obvious... try unplugging one of the other hard drive's power lead (not the one with windows on) and reboot it :thumb:

 

[Aleman]

Disk manager Rescan Disks??

Does your BIOS support 1TB??

Is it a 300 Wassy Whatsits / Thingy and your Motherboard only Supports 150 Wassy Whatsits / Thingy

Too many Hard Drives?? Whats That? I've got 4 Samsung 500GB in a RAID 10 Array, a 120GB and 250GB which I've just taken out . . . A 400GB external USB device, and a 1TB NAS Box . . .I backup to the 400GB USB and the NAS Box . . . the USB Disk stays at work and comes home at weekend for backups . . .Paranoid? Who? Me?

And don't even ask about the Kiddies Kit (250GB and 320GB) :)

 

[BrewStew]

:lol:

no such thing as too many backups... you only lose data once as they say

 

[falafael]

wow, nice set up!
right have unplugged the 1tb, now the bloody 500 gig is missing from view!!!,
right, since the OS is on the 120gig, and i will be having a 250gig, is there a way of transferring all the os, and the programs form the 120 to the 250 without having to re-install everything?, cos thats a pain in the butt!!

 

[BrewStew]

that definitely seems like a power supply issue to me mate.

what i had to do was have just the OS drive installed, the new 1tb drive, and one of the other 4 old drives installed... boot up, transfer the the contents of the old other drive to the new 1tb one... shutdown... unplug and remove old hard drive... connect another old other hard drive... and repeat until all the old 50g drives were copied to the new 1tb drive.

as for transferring windows to a new hard drive... i've never done it because windows thinks it's a "new installation" as it attaches it'self to the hard drive it's on, and asks for a registration key.

 

[Aleman]

is there a way of transferring all the os, and the programs form the 120 to the 250 without having to re-install everything?, cos thats a pain in the butt!!

Acronis TrueImage, Image the 150, and restore the image on the 250 . . . And its free for 14 days

 

[Aleman]

Of course if it is a PSU problem just go and buy a big 'F*CK OFF' 1KW Supply

 

[falafael]

unplugged the 500gig hd, and connected the 1tb, same problem, sees the 1tb at boot up...and its there in device manager, but when i go to computer, its not there, at moment i just cant see it!
Bloody strange?
even a add hardware dont see it?????

 

[falafael]

sussed it...yippeeeeee....now to fill it...but with what?
:party:

 

[falafael]

ok, why does the computer only see 931 gig and not a 1tb??, thats bloody 70 gig i have lost, thats a lot of storage to lose!!!

 

[Frisp]

ok, why does the computer only see 931 gig and not a 1tb??, thats bloody 70 gig i have lost, thats a lot of storage to lose!!!

Sounds about right Hard drives never quite contain the true number of Gigs you would expect. Its something to do with how a kb is calculated in bites. Basically manufacturers seem to round up the numbers.
My knowledge isn't that great but I remember getting this sort of answer when I felt ripped off on my first 100 Gig drive

 

[BrewStew]

you're not "losing" hard drve space... you mustn't forget that there are 1024 bytes to a kilobyte........ when they say it's a 1tb hard drive they mean it's got 1,000,000,000,000 bytes on it. so 1,000,000,000,000 divided by 1024 is 976,562,500 kilobytes... there are 1024 kilobytes to a megabyte, so divide it by 1024 again... there are 1024 megabytes to a gigabyte, so divide it by 1024 again... then that's why you only have 931 gig.

there's a system that has been brought in recently where you talk about a Gigabyte (GB) being 1,000 megabytes, but a Gibibyte (GiB) refers to its actual binary value of 1024mb. its ******* confusing and i think they should've just stuck to binary values and made it clear. but they did it to cover their own **** for the problem you've just come across... when you buy a hard drive that says it's 500gb... you're getting a drive which is 500,000,000,000 bytes on it, instead of a drive that has 536,870,912,000 which is the correct binary number for 500GB or rather 500GiB as it should now be correctly stated.

for reference under the new system:
1 Megabyte (MB) = 1000 kilobytes
1 Gigabyte (GB)= 1000 Megabytes.
1 Terabyte (TB)= 1000 gigabytes, or 1,000,000 megabytes....
and so on...

the Binary correct system is as follow
1 Mebibyte (MiB) = 1024 Kibibytes (KiB)
1 Gibibyte (GiB)= 1024 Mebibytes
and so on

 

[Aleman]

AS BS Says they don't quote the true value . . . . . as a programmer from the DOS2.?? days I learned the progression 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 16384, 32768, 65536, 131072, . . . . . 1048576 (1MB) . . . . which are based on the Hex Value Boundaries (Sort Of) F, FF, FFF, FFFF, . . . and in those days when a disk was quoted as being 5 MB it actually did have 5MB of space on it (plus a bit lost to formatting) . . . Then there came the time when manufacturers were trying to outdo each other in maximum capacity and they started quoting 1MB as 1,000,000 bytes (good old media people don't you love them . . . they'll try and make Pi equal to 3 sometime soon :twisted: ) and that's the way its gone on. Its a bit of a bloody cheek IMO especially when you get up to the terabyte/petabyte levels as the amount of space they are diddling you out of is bigger than the first hard drive I had in my first PC :shock: (10Mb :lol:)

 

[falafael]

yeah it seems a bit of a rip off i think.....still this drive should'nt take to long to fill up!!

 

[Frisp]

still this drive should'nt take to long to fill up!

Jayzus, how much data do you want to keep.

 

[falafael]

i had a 180 gig with movies on, but that only had 8gig left, so all movies transferred to the 1TB hard drive, stuck some more on last night, basically my computer acts as a media server,connected by 2 xbox1's, in the front room and bedroom whilst the computer is in the kitchen..oh, and then theres my roku player which accesses the 500gig music drive!!
Yippeee..why pay for tv!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumb: