3 TB problems

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Hi

I have googled and googled but I guess I am lost.

I purchased the HP external 3TB from Dion Wired special on monday.

Stripped the box and put the WD Green drive into my computer. I am running Windows 8 64bit.

The drive shows up as 2000 gigs odd and 760 gigs odd, I can format and play with the 2000 gigs odd but the other part is untouchable. So i start googling and come to the conclusion that my board (DG31PR) is too old to play nice with the 3tb.

So I look up a board that supports socket 775 and find the GA-G41M-Combo (Rev 2.0) and phone around to see where it is available. Its available @ PC Zone. I then ask is it compatible with a 3 TB hdd.. and the response was yes.

Great I go and buy it, strip my desktop, install in motherboard, reassemble and guess what same problem...

Any suggestions?

Edit:

Ok I got it working. Had to go into cmd prompt... run diskpart, then select the disk that it is and run 'clean' then back into disk management and create volume and bobs your uncle...

but now i my stupidity I went a wiped my 4 gig sd card using the clean function on the diskpart menu. Recovery software?
 
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Programs I have used, that in my experience work:
- GetDataBack for NTFS
- Recover My Files

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in that order.
 
NomNom said:
Recuva is also worth a try: http://www.piriform.com/recuva
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However I will caution, that some software (e.g. Recuva) will only be able to "recover" SOME data that was deleted, and not ALL data that was deleted. I guess just like in a professional recovery. And some are so pointless that they won't recover any data that was erased prior to their installation. Kinda takes away from the whole recovery aspect.
 
We had a similar problem when my flat mate bought a 3TB internal for his PC. If you partition the drive using MBR, it won't be able to see anything beyond 2TB (its a limitation). So if you are not Booting off the drive, rather use the GBR (Gui something or other I forget what its called) as the partition option, and then format and you'll have the use of the 3TB all in one go. Just check disk management when you partition and you'll see the options where MBR is
 
You should be able to format the 3TB just fine, however you can't boot from that drive without splitting it into 2TB and smaller pieces.

So as a secondary drive it should format to 3TB just fine.
 
This is going in my records, thanks OP for posting the solution! :o
 
Thanks keeper. Got all my photos and videos back.

Now the problem is that randomly the drive (3tb) randomly disappears from my system.

For example copying from one hdd to the 3tb is just disappears and the copying fails.

What could be the reason for this?
 
Check your cabling.
I had an issue where one of my SATA cables were so badly bent near the HDD's plug that my copy speed went from like 100MB/s to under 1 MB/s !

So perhaps unplug it completely (both power and data) and then plug them back in. I'd actually recommend that you try a different SATA cable even.

If that didn't fix it, then perhaps try a different power supply rail/power cable.
 
Pada said:
If that didn't fix it, then perhaps try a different power supply rail/power cable.
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+1. There was also couple cases with broken PCB around SATA power connector. Hard drive must be inspected for possible mechanical damages.
 
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