Yo please help me with this 3tb drive.

[Boskee]

I got wdc 3tb drive for christmas and it only shows ~700gb but earlier it was showing 1.99tb. wtf is going on?

 

[DocBrown]

Hi Boskee,


Can you show us a snip of your disk management ?


Start :ar: Computer Management :ar: Disk Management
Maximize to full screen
Take a Snip of it with the Snipping Tool, Save snip, then upload the snip here in your post.

 

[Boskee]

 

[DocBrown]

Did you do the formatting of this HD? Does you computer Bios recognize Large Capacity HD's ?

 

[Boskee]

Did you do the formatting of this HD? Does you computer Bios recognize Large Capacity HD's ?

im about to upload a video. Just reinstalled windows but my user is on a different disk so it kept most of the stuff but sony vegas isn't working so sorry if it is lacking editing

edit: dang taking so long to process

 

[Boskee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUmzQyxH7X0
this is a video I made, help pls.

 

[Boskee]

Bump somebody please help!

 

[pscowboy]

Try this.

Download GParted bootable iso, burn it to cd using Imgburn at 4x speed.

Boot with it; click your 3tb disk; Tools- Convert partition table - Advanced - GPT - Okay when done.

Remove the cd, boot up normally and go to Disk Management; right-click the drive to initialize as simple volume, and format it NTFS. This should give you the 3 tb.

On another matter; you have two partitions with the active flag. That generally is not a good idea. Leave the System Reserved flag alone, but kill active on the C: partition (right click for that option).

 

[Boskee]

Try this.

Download GParted bootable iso, burn it to cd using Imgburn at 4x speed.

Boot with it; click your 3tb disk; Tools- Convert partition table - Advanced - GPT - Okay when done.

Remove the cd, boot up normally and go to Disk Management; right-click the drive to initialize as simple volume, and format it NTFS. This should give you the 3 tb.

On another matter; you have two partitions with the active flag. That generally is not a good idea. Leave the System Reserved flag alone, but kill active on the C: partition (right click for that option).

I couldn't find any such thing called tools.

 

[pscowboy]

My apologies; instructions were for the older version in my library of tech discs.

Go to Device tab - Create Partition Table - Advanced - click down arrow - choose GPT.

 

[Boskee]

My apologies; instructions were for the older version in my library of tech discs.

Go to Device tab - Create Partition Table - Advanced - click down arrow - choose GPT.

I just did that and nothing changed

 

[pscowboy]

Making the assumption that GPartEd did the partition table work (10-15 minutes), I've got nothing else to offer to resurrect you're h/d to 3tb.

If nobody else comes on board to try to fix this, RMA it. When you get the replacement, run Gparted to get the GPT; then reboot and initialize it & format it in Disk Management.

By the way, you never answered Doc Brown's question about your BIOS seeing the 3tb as 3tb when you first boot up with it attached to the pc.

 

[Boskee]

Making the assumption that GPartEd did the partition table work (10-15 minutes), I've got nothing else to offer to resurrect you're h/d to 3tb.

If nobody else comes on board to try to fix this, RMA it. When you get the replacement, run Gparted to get the GPT; then reboot and initialize it & format it in Disk Management.

By the way, you never answered Doc Brown's question about your BIOS seeing the 3tb as 3tb when you first boot up with it attached to the pc.

what do you mean when my bios sees it?

 

[pscowboy]

Tap the "hot" key (usually Del, Esc, F2,) to enter BIOS when you're first booting up. The first page usually lists the h/d's. What does it say about the 3tb size?

It would be helpful if you filled in your specs.

Check your mobo manufacturer's support site for a possible BIOS upgrade.

 

[Boskee]

Tap the "hot" key (usually Del, Esc, F2,) to enter BIOS when you're first booting up. The first page usually lists the h/d's. What does it say about the 3tb size?

It would be helpful if you filled in your specs.

Check your mobo manufacturer's support site for a possible BIOS upgrade.

yeah it shows up as a device to boot from and stuff like that

and i think my motherboard is Intel P67 Express Chipset.

i took it out of this computer Newegg.com - lenovo IdeaCentre K330 (7727-4FU) Desktop PC Intel Core i7 2600(3.40GHz) 8GB DDR3 1TB HDD Capacity NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 1GB Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

 

[Boskee]

pls halp