i could use a little help
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Monday, May 07, 2012 2:48 AMhi i have a homebuilt comp stats are mv=gigabyte ga-890gpa-ud3h procesor amd sept 3300 black 3 8 gigs ddr3 nvidia zotac forestorm 9800gt. not that all that matters this is a hard drive problem i believe for some reason my os is installed on my 3 tb seagate baracuda hd, while this is what i wanted i cannot extend the partition or create another one. the space says unallocated and i cannot seem to access it even in cmd. this may be of help my drive seems to be set to slave in bios and i cannot change that. and i dont know why. win 7 automatically put it that way durring installation. i really hope im not looking at an fdisk to fix this as i have the beyond 2tb drivers installed. i am not an amature user. ive never had this problem before though this is a new configuration of hardware for me atm. i almost want to go back to my asus board but the uhd is great for oclocking, can any one help me reclaim this space on my primary drive?
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Monday, May 07, 2012 3:30 AM
im pulling my hiair out on this one any one with any thing they think may help please feel free to bring it up
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 3:16 AMModerator
Hi,
Could you please make a screen shot for me to clarify the issue?
That seems hardware problem and I suggest to contact your PC manufacturer for further help.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
Leo Huang
Leo Huang
TechNet Community Support
- Marked As Answer by Leo HuangMicrosoft Contingent Staff, Moderator Friday, May 11, 2012 7:30 AM
- Unmarked As Answer by bonedady Monday, May 21, 2012 6:01 PM
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 7:07 AM
Some motherboards don't support 3tb hard drives. Here is a link to give you some info. http://www.pcworld.com/article/235088/everything_you_need_to_know_about_3tb_hard_drives.html
Also have you tried a free partition manager to see if that helps? Here is a link to one.
You my also need a bios update for the motherboard.
- Edited by Schloicka Tuesday, May 08, 2012 7:08 AM
- Marked As Answer by Leo HuangMicrosoft Contingent Staff, Moderator Friday, May 11, 2012 7:30 AM
- Unmarked As Answer by bonedady Monday, May 21, 2012 6:01 PM
- Marked As Answer by bonedady Monday, May 21, 2012 6:01 PM
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Friday, May 18, 2012 3:54 AM
i am trying the partiton manager now. the mother board im runnung should be capable of full raid beyond 2tb:(
this has been a real pain and im still not sure why i cannot set the drive to master. im wondering if reinstalling windows 7 will let me reconfigure?
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Friday, May 18, 2012 3:55 AMi will take a series of screen shots ill have them up tomarrow sorry for the delay i have been out ot town.
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Friday, May 18, 2012 4:00 AM
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Friday, May 18, 2012 4:02 AMthe disk comes up as 2 tb with the rest unallocated and i can not access it. the bios has it set to slave and it will not let me set it to master i have followed all the steps from the mb maker and microsoft. im at a loss.
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Friday, May 18, 2012 4:29 AM
im not sure if the partition recovery will be able to reallocate space that has no drive letter:/ im going online to read more about the tool thankyou.
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Friday, May 18, 2012 6:57 AM
good answer this tool after reading the manual i was able to extend '/ recover the rest and there was still data from before the problem started recovered 88 gigs of music thankyou
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Saturday, May 19, 2012 2:20 AM
argh that was a nightmare after the tool finished windows genuine told me my copy of wondows was fradulent.... spent 8 hours today fixing it with tech support lol i really hope i can recover again with out this happening:(
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