HI Per, On Sunday 14 June 2009 09:08:19 Per Jessen wrote:
James Hatridge wrote:
Hi all,
I got a Hitachi 1TB hd last week. I could not get my system to see it.
Hi Jim - _how_ was it not seen? Did the BIOS not recognize it?
I'm sure that the motherboard is working, I moved the other hds around and I could see that the system at boot was finding the new hd. But it would skip it.
Okay, your BIOS skips it - then my guess is that it is too big although I didn't think there was any special BIOS limit around the Terabyte level.
During the boot the system would find the first 3 disks and then wait for 30-60 seconds. Then it would go on with the boot. I changed the cables around making the new disk #3 and my older disk #4. When I booted then it stopped at #3 for 30-60 seconds then skipped to #4 and found my old disk at #4. So I then had disks at #1,#2, and #4. I wonder about the disk being too big because the MB is about 3 years old and back then there was nothing bigger than about 500gb. I think I'll return it and get a little smaller one, say 600-750gb.
/Per
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