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Hard Drive Incorrect Size

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  • 06-06-2013 6:13pm
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    jamo2oo9
    Registered Users Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭


    Okay I've bought a 1TB Hard drive 3.5" off Adverts.ie and it came in the post today. Got it all connected up and installed and now it tells me it's a 152GB hard drive. There is nothing on it. How is this possible? The hard drive itself is new, just out of the package and says 1000GB on it. Any ideas?


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    GreenWolfe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭GreenWolfe


    jamo2oo9 wrote: »
    Okay I've bought a 1TB Hard drive 3.5" off Adverts.ie and it came in the post today. Got it all connected up and installed and now it tells me it's a 152GB hard drive. There is nothing on it. How is this possible? The hard drive itself is new, just out of the package and says 1000GB on it. Any ideas?

    Assuming you're using Windows, go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management and choose Disk Management. See if there are more partitions or unallocated space on it.


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    jamo2oo9
    Registered Users Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭jamo2oo9


    Okay, the hard drive is not what it was. I've found a Drive named as Disk 0 with "931.51GB Unallocated" which has to be the 1TB hard drive I've installed. What do I do from there? The disk is online as shown


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    bitburger
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    right click on unallocated, click new volume, follow onscreen instructions, simples/


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    jamo2oo9
    Registered Users Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭jamo2oo9


    Cheers mate! That helped alot!


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