Can't Install 1TB Hard Drives

Put the Samsung and a Western Digital software in the A: Drive and start
your PC. the software will give you help. If you do not have a A: Drive Buy
one!!!!!

"Terry Smerling" wrote in message

> I have tried unsuccessfully to install two different 1 TB hard drives -- a
> Samsung and a Western Digital; and each time I could not get my system to
> "see" the drive. Instead, my system reports a 32mb drive. I have a
> fairly new system with Windows Vista factory-loaded on it. My goal is to
> reinstall Vista onto the new drive. When I attempt to install Vista, the
> Vista install program likewise reports that the new drive is only 32mb.
> Can anyone steer me in the right direction? Could it be a BIOS problem?
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For the Western Digital 1TB drive --

The BIOS says:

Cylinders 65535
Heads 16
PreComp 0
Landing Zone 65534
Sectors 255

IBM's Ontack says the settings should be;

Cylinders 16383
Heads 16
PreComp 16384
Landing Zone 16384
Sectors 63


"Rick Rogers" wrote in message

> Hi,
>
> How does the system BIOS report the drive?
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
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>
> "Terry Smerling" wrote in message
>
>>I have tried unsuccessfully to install two different 1 TB hard drives -- a
>>Samsung and a Western Digital; and each time I could not get my system to
>>"see" the drive. Instead, my system reports a 32mb drive. I have a
>>fairly new system with Windows Vista factory-loaded on it. My goal is to
>>reinstall Vista onto the new drive. When I attempt to install Vista, the
>>Vista install program likewise reports that the new drive is only 32mb.
>>Can anyone steer me in the right direction? Could it be a BIOS problem?
>
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When you say the "A: drive" do you mean a floppy drive, which I already
have? The Western Digital software is much larger than the capacity of a
floppy. I am able to boot from the Western digital CD, but that didn't work
either.

"Hot-text" wrote in message

> Put the Samsung and a Western Digital software in the A: Drive and start
> your PC. the software will give you help. If you do not have a A: Drive
> Buy one!!!!!
>
> "Terry Smerling" wrote in message
>
>> I have tried unsuccessfully to install two different 1 TB hard drives --
>> a Samsung and a Western Digital; and each time I could not get my system
>> to "see" the drive. Instead, my system reports a 32mb drive. I have a
>> fairly new system with Windows Vista factory-loaded on it. My goal is to
>> reinstall Vista onto the new drive. When I attempt to install Vista, the
>> Vista install program likewise reports that the new drive is only 32mb.
>> Can anyone steer me in the right direction? Could it be a BIOS problem?
>
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A work around that has worked for me was to format the brand new 1TB hdd
on another computer running windows. I had to connect the brand new one
as a secondary hard drive on a working system first, then open up disk
management and format the new hdd using NTFS file system. After it had
been formatted, I connected it back to the computer where I was setting
it up as the primary hdd, and voila! Windows finally successfully
installed, and without hitches! I think the 1TB disk space is too big
for the dvd media to handle as far as formatting is concerned, so you
have to help it out by using a formatted hdd in order for the
installation disc to proceed with the simpler tasks of copying,
expanding, and installing the windows files. I am not sure it makes any
sense to you, but I got it working that way, and I am hoping you will,
too.
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No problem here when I installed a 2 TB drive and installed Win 7 on it.
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If the motherboard uses an nvidia chipset it may be a driver issue.

I have several 1.5TB seagate drives that would not work with an evga 750i
motherboard. Recently they came out with a new version of the chipset
driver. Lo and behold, now the drives work perfectly.


"urGirl" wrote in message

>
> A work around that has worked for me was to format the brand new 1TB hdd
> on another computer running windows. I had to connect the brand new one
> as a secondary hard drive on a working system first, then open up disk
> management and format the new hdd using NTFS file system. After it had
> been formatted, I connected it back to the computer where I was setting
> it up as the primary hdd, and voila! Windows finally successfully
> installed, and without hitches! I think the 1TB disk space is too big
> for the dvd media to handle as far as formatting is concerned, so you
> have to help it out by using a formatted hdd in order for the
> installation disc to proceed with the simpler tasks of copying,
> expanding, and installing the windows files. I am not sure it makes any
> sense to you, but I got it working that way, and I am hoping you will,
> too.
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