Recent content by BikeDude

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    Drive larger than 2 TB, making sure I have this right

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2581408 is worth reading first. As long as you don't intend to boot from that drive, you should be fine. (motherboard must support UEFI so Windows will be able to boot from a big drive)
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    3TB - now suddenly shrunk to 800GB

    Months have passed, and stuff happened. I put the drive in a USB cradle and used photorec to recover my photos. After this I launched into Seatools which long test ended promptly with messages akin to "Bad LBA: 587559889 Unable to repair" So I RMA'ed the sucker. Funny thing: The...
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    3TB - now suddenly shrunk to 800GB

    Thanks for the suggestions guys. Cerb, Testdisk shows: Disk /dev/sdb - 801 GB / 746 GiB - ST3000DM 001-9YN166 I briefly tried hooking the drive up to a computer at work using SATA. That computer is able to see a 3TB drive, albeit an empty one. (i.e. same result as when I hook up the drive...
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    3TB - now suddenly shrunk to 800GB

    I've been using my 3TB Seagate ST3000DM for over a year with Win7 x64. Then one morning I power up and my drive is gone. Disk Management thinks my drive is a 800GB Uninitialized volume. I removed the drive from my computer, put it into a USB2 cradle and ran gdisk: Disk 3:: 5860533168...