My 3TB problem...

[Rickster]

This is a short and sweet thread.

- Plugged my new SG 3TB hard drive in. (Not a OS Drive)
- Didnt show up in Windows/My PC.
- Showed up in windows disk management as unallocated.
- It asked for MBR or GPT, I chose GTP and formatted it to NTFS
- Still didnt show in Windows, but it is now allocated at 2.7TB.
- It shows in the bios as 3TB




Any suggestions?

 

[xrapidx]

That's about right.

 

[Rickster]

That's about right.

If you didnt get it the first time....it still doesnt show in windows.

 

[biometrics]

That's odd. And you formatted it, right?

 

[Rickster]

Yes,

Here it is in Disk management



Here is in My PC

 

[Rickster]

EDIT: I fixed the problem...

When I formatted it, it assigned the letter to \:I , I changed it to J and now it shows up....strange...

/request pin thread

 

[biometrics]

Yes,

Here it is in Disk management

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Here is in My PC

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Try assign a drive letter when you format.

 

[xrapidx]

Oh right, I thought you had an issue with size Didn't see you didn't assign the drive letter.

 

[agentrfr]

lol.

It happens to all of us at least once

 

[koeksGHT]

My first thought when I read lol

 

[rrh]

EDIT: I fixed the problem...

When I formatted it, it assigned the letter to \:I , I changed it to J and now it shows up....strange...

/request pin thread

Common problem: some USB drives don't show automatically when plugged in.

(I have the same problem in Windows 7).

The only workaround is to use Disk Manager to assign a drive letter.

 

[Rickster]

Common problem: some USB drives don't show automatically when plugged in.

(I have the same problem in Windows 7).

The only workaround is to use Disk Manager to assign a drive letter.

It wasnt a USB drive, its a normal SATA internal drive.