Hey everyone.. I followed instructions and installed a new hitachi 2TB harddrive.. Both cables installed.. My pc is a year old, running Vista 64 Build OS.. Device manager Shows the harddrive but in my computer it doesnt show the hitachi harddrive.. I went on BIOS to turn on IDE Controllers, and thats when my computer loaded to windows and installed drivers for the hitachi drive and restarted.. Any ideas?..
You need to go into administative tools/computer management/disk storage/ and format and add a drive letter to the hard drive. Without a drive letter it won't show up.
Hey Jony, thanks..Its my 1st time installing a Hard drive.. Just got the drive formatting..2TB is going to be along time lol
I forgot to mention that all you need is the quick format, that's all I use on a new drive (never takes more than 5 minutes). But the full format will also work but take longer.
I'm also installing a new 2TB hardrive (WD20EADS)and have some questions about configuring. I want to use my new drive as one large partition for storage to exclusively hold my mkv 1080p movies which range from 6-16 GB each. With this in mind, what allocation unit size should I format the drive with? Before loading hardrive up with movies I understand I should run western digital utility- extend zeroes/smart test error checking first. Anything else I should know to setup hardrive? All jumpers should be off of harddrive right?
for large video files use ntfs and use the 64kb clusters. Thats all I use on my mediapc hard drives. I notice using the 64kb clusters it helps keeping the drives from defragmenting too much especially as they get full. I have 4 hard drives on my mediapc, using perfectdisk defragmenter. One thing I notice with perfectdisk set to defrag automatically was that 3 drives where always under 1 percent fragmented, 1 drive was always at 12 percent fragmented. further review showed me that the the drive that was always 12 fragmented was set at 4kb clusters. Even when I did a manual defrag it was still getting heavily fragmented. The large 64kb clusters do work from my experience. I also didn't notice any downside from using the 64kb clusters. http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-14923.html I never have done any error checking etc on a new drive, usually I just use the quick format and that's it.
