today I bought and hitachi desktar (164 GB) to replace my 20 GB slave harddisk. But when put it in the computer it shows up in Bios and in My system but not as a harddisk in My computer. I've checked all the cables and triple the slave settings, but still nothing . The OS in Windows XP home sp2. Does anyone know how to fixed this is problem?
Right Click on My Computer Manage Disk Management Scroll to your new hard drive, and partition it. That should just about do it Yatesy
problem no. 2 If I format the harddisk, it starts to format but in the end it says "format not completed", in dutch. What could be wrong?
try downloading fdisk or some other hard drive formating program like partition magic and see if you can do it through there.
Lmao i love you Yatesy. You fixed the exact same problem for me a few days ago. Meloveyoulongtimenow.
Same problem Howdy. I have the exact same problem but, I don't want to format the drive as it has data I need. Anyone have an idea how to enable this disk to be seen by "My Computer" as it is listed in both the BIOS and Device Manager? Thank you much.
Right click on the drive and goto mount in adminstrator properties. Basically the same method as before but a different option.
WTF???? Same problem here...I just bought a new WD 300GB HDD...it is shown in Speedfan but it isn't shown as a hdd in my computer.....pisses me off! Same Windows SP2
I have another question.....I am now formating the partition, but it says that there is 279GB of space available....the hdd has 300GB...so I do not understand where 20GB are gone???
If you look at the drive it will say something like I.e. 1GB = 1Billion bytes (UK) But in actual computing terms, your OS determines size using GibiBytes (GiB) so 1GiB = 1073741824Bytes so your hard drives 300,000,000,000Bytes becomes 279.3967723846435546875GiB
Allright....you just killed me And isn't there a prog that could maybe give me at least 10GB.... I mean... I have another hdd a Maxtor 160GB and it has 152GB on it......
Its the way it is. Computers define 1GB as 1024MB and 1MB as 1024KB etc, However hard drive manufacturers use 1GB = 1000MB etc to simplify things and always have, this means that the values on the hard drives are correct, but a different definition. The effect this has is less on smaller hard drives so your 160GB drive is a little closer. You havn't lost any storage, there is just less there than you thought.
The larger the hard drive, the more space you lose due to the GB/GiB thing. 80GB = 74GiB 120GB = 111GiB 160GB = 149GiB 200GB = 186GiB 250GB = 233GiB 300GB = 279GiB 400GB = 372GiB 500GB = 465GiB
