internal drive

i have an internal drive in one of those hard drive enclosure. its a 3 tb western digital drive. when i plug it in, its only 750 gb thats showing up. i have converted the disk to gpt but its still showing only 750 gb. i have windows 7 64 bit. how can i get this to show as 3 terabytes?

Western Digital announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST), the disk drive arm of Hitachi Ltd., in a cash and stock transaction valued at about $4.3 billion. Western Digital is the leading supplier of hard disk drive...

I just installed a new internal HDD. First, I created a system image using windows backup. Then I made a windows recovery disk on CD. Next I took out the old HDD, and replaced it with the new one. The new one is hooked up to a different port with a different wire because it is a sata 6.0 gb/s...

I had an old (6 months old) internal hard drive that I had setup as an external drive go bad yesterday so I replaced it with a brand new internal drive that I am trying to connect using my esata connector. It is the same exact setup as I had for my old drive that did work for 6 months. The...

Hello everyone, I just purchased a HP HPE 180t computer (specs below). I have reformatted and reinstalled the operating system three times now, twice using HP's stuff and once using a clean install from a Windows 7 professional CD. After about a week of using the computer sometimes 3 or 4 days...

I have a Gateway FX notebook. It has two internal hard drive bay. I am running Windows 7. I just bought a second hard drive and install it. It i showing up in the BIOS and in the device manager but not in MY Computer. What do I need to do to see the new hard drive in the My Computer section.

My pc was running Xp and I had 2 hard drives installed, 1 for system stuff and the other backing up. I removed the back-up drive and installed W7 on the main drive. When I reconnected the back-up drive W7 doesn't see my files, it just sees a blank disk 127GB capacity. I've tried to connect the...

Windows 7 Home Premium, Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600, 64 Bit I set up Backup to use a large external ESATA drive. It worked fine for weeks, until I swapped the port the drive was plugged into. Backup then could no longer see the drive, even though it showed up in My Computer and I could copy...

I have just upgraded from Vista to 7. That went well. Before I performed the upgrade I carried out a backup to a second HDD for the first time. I have just gone to search the back up and have dicscovered it is in 149 seperate files and one global catalogue. Apart from going through every file...

Hello, I am experiencing the following issue on my system and have been unable to find a solution so far. I have connected a LaCie 1TB External Disk drive on my system and the disk randomly disappears from my system and is no more visible and accessible. Depending on the connection type the...

I have an old XP machine with a C: drive, two CD drives (D: and E: ) and a hard drive with three partitions (F:, G:, and H: ). I just got a new Gateway 4300 Windows 7 machine. It currently has a C: drive and a single DVD/CD drive (D: ). I would like to move my second drive from the old...

Last night I was up installing windows 7 and everything was going fine. I saved all my important files and what not before I installed windows 7 to my secondary "STORAGE Hard Drive". Now today once Windows 7 was completed my 2nd Hard Drive doesnt seem to be detected at all. Note, both of the...

Hi, I have a mapped drive on my computer that links to a folder on one of my internal hard drives. It used to work fine and connect whenever i boot up. But now it only connects when i click on it, I have tried re creating a few times and always select connect at log on, but the issue remains...

I have an ATA internal drive I use as back up and it shows fine on windows 7 32 bit but not on the 64 bit? It shows in the listed devices as active and I can populate it but it won't show in explorer or my computer so I can access files on it. Thanks for your help.

I upgraded from XP Pro to Win7 Ultimate using a clean install. My computer box has 2 Sata 3.0 internal hard drives. I used to be able to switch power on to the second drive and XP would recognize it and then I would have access to it. After installing W7, I can no longer do that. If I reboot...

Hi all, I've scoured the internet in search of a solution to this. I'm sure the solution to this must be pretty simple. When I open disk defragmenter it doesn't list my C drive -- which is the primary internal HD on which the OS, windows 7 64 bit, is installed. I have another partition...

this is a post i found someone else did, it was for an external drive but worked just great with my internal Sata drive Go to: control panel administrative tools computer management disk management scroll down the list of drives and your drive should be there. highlight the desired drive...

I intend to use the Win 7 East File Transfer when I upgrade from Vista Ultimate to Win 7 pro. I intend to use the clean install method. If I add a second physical internal hard drive, can I use that instead of a physical external drive? All documentation always refer to an external drive. I...

Firstly, I apologise if this is in the wrong section, if so, would an admin kindly move it. :) PC Specs: P5n32-E SLI Plus Motherboard 2 x 2GB DDR2 RAM 2 x 512MB Nvidia Geforce GFX 750GB Internal HDD (Changed from the originally given 250GB, due to suspicions this was causing my PC issues.)...

Had a very interesting experience trying to format an internal hard drive under Windows 7. This is a hard drive that was running Windows XP and then got corrupted. Rather than do a repair, I bought another internal drive and loaded Windows 7 on it. I then installed the old corrupted hard drive...