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jjmcmahon7
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n°1734757
10-11-2007 at 04:13:18 PM

Hey what's up everybody. I just got a Hitachi Ultrastar 1TB drive from a guy at work. I work in IT. I have a ASUS Crosshair MB, AMD Athlon X2 6000, 4GB G Skill RAM. I run my OS off of a 36gb Raptor. When i installed this drive i had no issues with the connectors or fit. I booted up the computer and everything acts normal but the drive is not recognized. Please let me know if there is anything i can do to get this running. It is SATA so i figure that it is most likely a BIOS setting or something of that sort. Please let me know and thank you for the effort in advance.

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g-paw
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n°1734770
10-11-2007 at 10:37:25 PM

Is it seen in the BIOS or in Disk Management under Administrative Tools? Could try running the Hitachi diagnotic/repair software from their website. Possible it either needs formatted or a drive letter


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n°1734793
10-12-2007 at 04:10:40 PM

No i can't see it anywhere. If you could provide a link that would be great. I believe i need to format the Hitachi because it is brand new.

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n°1734794
10-12-2007 at 04:43:06 PM

jjmcmahon7 wrote :

No i can't see it anywhere. If you could provide a link that would be great. I believe i need to format the Hitachi because it is brand new.



If it's new, it will likely need formatted. This is he Hitachi download site. Think you'll need the Drive Fitness Test but check all of the Downloads out

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

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n°1734831
10-14-2007 at 06:06:34 AM

When installing a second SATA drive you must go to Windows Disk Management to initialize the drive. When you open Disk Management the new drive is automaticaly initialized and formated. Here's the click path to Disk Management; Click on, Start>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management. :)

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n°1734839
10-14-2007 at 03:16:54 PM

scottman wrote :

When installing a second SATA drive you must go to Windows Disk Management to initialize the drive. When you open Disk Management the new drive is automaticaly initialized and formated. Here's the click path to Disk Management; Click on, Start>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management. :)



Agree, this is the first thing to try but my experience with this has not been good, which is why I suggested the above. Guess it's my "glass half empty" approach. :)

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n°1735761
11-02-2007 at 07:07:26 PM

Scottman, I was having the same problem with my Sata drive.
I followed your advise, step by step and it worked.
Thank You

P.S. My h.d. was also a Hitachi Ultrastar 1TB. Not that it makes a diff.


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n°1741220
02-17-2008 at 06:15:42 AM

Your welcome.

LUXY D
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n°1748818
08-01-2008 at 12:35:09 AM

Hi, im having same prob with hitachi ultrastar 500GB one, tried doing your way & it doesnt find it,

its brand new (think...came in silver bag with yellow sticker) & it doesnt recognize it in bios & beeps a few times.....

motherboard is asus P5N32-E SLI with....

1x 250GB sata2 &

1x 80GB IDE

is the HD a dud?

tried it in current working sata socket & couple of others....tried it with other HD's in & with none in & even from booting of windows disc but it never sees it, but it is spinning.....

HELP!

itadakimasu
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n°1748843
08-01-2008 at 04:30:24 PM

check your cables.

check in your bios to see if the sata port is disabled or check other settings relating to sata... when i got my first 1tb drive it read as under 500mb until i found a setting for large disk in my bios.

LUXY D
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n°1748900
08-02-2008 at 03:23:43 AM

satas always enabled hence me using my 250GB sata.... tried all cables in all ports

there is a setting for large i think.....but its on auto at the mo, so surely that would still work...


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