Today I just Purchased Two Seagate Barracuda ST31000528AS 7200.12 I've plugged them into my computer, everything is connected properly and the drives are detected by Windows 7 64bit.
However, one drive refuses to be shown as it's full 931 GB of usable space.
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Disk Wizard has attempted to format the drive after several reboots, I've also deleted any partitions on it, then disabled and re-enabled the drive to see if that'd work.
Why is the drive reading at 31.8 megabytes? is it using the 32MB cache as the disk space?
That's definitely your recovery partition. Isn't it?
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Edit: No, it's definitely my brand new TB hard drive.
It's a separate partition for something...
Can you access it through Windows?
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Yes, it's a perfectly usable hard drive, other than it being just under 30 MB large.
Edit: BIOS also see's it as a small hard drive.
Return it and get a new one.
[QUOTE=Thor667;24084575]Return it and get a new one.[/QUOTE]
Thanks, Bestbuy replaced it without even asking what was wrong with it.
Everything is working as it should now.
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