Seagate Barracuda Problem! Help Please!!!

Hi

I have installed a new Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 in my PC. It shows itself in BIOS and even on Windows (in device manager) But when I go to my PC to put files on it or anything, its not there, it only shows my Maxtor which has the Windows installed on.

The Seagate has no jumper so it can work on 3Gb's operation and I have also desintalled it and when I restarded, windows recognized a new hardware and it even showed the model but theen after its done I still dont see it in my PC.

What can be happening?

I have never really encountered any problems simular to this one, but check in device manager to see if windows even detects the drive, or if it just is disabled or something of the sort. That's the first step. After that, there's a few things you can do, but at least find that out for now

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hmm, how much space does windows read your maxtor drive at, maybe windows combined both under one name. As I said, I haven't experienced anything like this that windows detects the drive and says it is using it under device manager yet doesn't in my computer.

good job, disconnect that and see if it makes a difference, although I'm not sure why it would considering the striker has excellent build quality, but you never know

yeah, but partition magic isn't a program that you just go to compusa and buy, it's a hefty $70 and you can't use a trial version or anything of the such to just format the drive

err i went to my hardware provider who sold me the hdd and did it for free...

If the bios reconised it. You need to use MS Disk management utility.

My Computer -> manage then disk utilities. You can partition and format it there.

I don't think newegg ships out of the US, I'm sorry, but I don't really know many european shops that have good prices. And I apologize if I acted a bit harsh, it's just that slim's a good friend of mine and I want to be able to find him answers, and what you said was a good idea, but it isn't something that's possible for slim right now

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not newegg but close
fingers crossed

you need to partition it.

Download Gparted livecd here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/g [...] g_mirror=0

burn it to a cd with a program like nero or magiciso or google how to burn an iso.

select the seagate hard drive you installed.
create NTFS partition(s), as the hard drive is > 250 gb create at least 2 partitions it is NOT mandatory but perhaps better.

250 Gb 2 partitions
320 Gb 2 or 3 partitions
400 Gb 3 partitions
500 Gb 4 partitions
750 Gb 6 partitions

Please translate NOT and mandatory to a language u can understand in this page: http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Most partition programs select cluster size according to the size of the partition.

if you have a text file of 1 kb and the cluster size of the hard drive is 4 kb then that text file will occupy/use 4 kb instead because is the minimum size the hard drive would allocate therefore creating a 3 kb wasted space.

the larger the partition, the larger the cluster size (unless changed manually), larger wasted space.

On the otherside the smaller the cluster size, the less wasted space, BUT, the hard drive will work slower and harder to read files, because for each file (obviously larger than 1 kb) the hard drive will have to read more clusters the same for writing.

Therefore way to small or way to big partitions shouldn't be used unless no other choice.

I don't know if this info is accurate this is my humble opinion please search the web for more info or accuracy.

That was true of FAT partitions, and to a lesser extent, FAT32 partitions. NTFS has eliminated this problem. NTFS uses a 4KB cluster size regardless of the volume size. NTFS also has optimal read/write speed at a 4KB cluster size.