My hardisk 1tb only shows 500gb space, just bough it yessterday and i have installed it in port 0 and an other hardisk off 500 gb was installed on port 1 and when i go into my computer i only see both hardisks showing 500 gb

Be sure to install any drivers or software that may have came with the drive.

Check My Computer, to see if it detected.
Try it in another USB Port.

damnor01

Hello,

This laptop will accept any USB harddisk as it does have USB ports.

I would recommend a 500GB personally as this is the most cost effective and most users are not likely to need 1TB unless using your laptop as a media center or video/music editing platform.

You need to format your drive as FAT32.
If you are using Windows Vista or 7, you will have to google search for a FAT23 formatting tool. So take your data off the drive. Format the drive, put your files back on the drive and your good to go.
*************CAUTION************
There is a 4GB per file size limitation with FAT32!

Just uninstall that software and try to connect it

1.check the USB cord
2. the controller to the USB drive could faulty.
3.the usb port could be damaged / try another port.

***I hope this helps. Have a great day!***

Hi!

Let's see how much left on your hardisk and how much space that your programs used in your disk..do this..

Double click the "My Computer" icon
Right click on your "Local Disk (C:)" drive and click properties...
The blue color indicator will tell you how much space was used by your programs on your hardisk..
The pink color indicator will tell you how much free space left on your hardisk
The capacity value should be more or less 19 GB..
See if this capacity value match in your drive..

If the capacity value of your drive is below 10 GB then my guess is you have a wrong setting for your hardisk... Look physically in your hardisk. Between the port of ide cable and power supply connector you will see terminals with jumper on it.. The jumper is used to short the terminal. the function of the terminal is to assign the hardisk as slave, master, cable connector and or limit the capacity of the hardisk to some amount.. Check the label of the hardisk.. schematic diagram on it will explain where to put the jumper...

If the setting of the jumper was correct and the capacity value of your drive match to approximately 19 GB... then I suggest you browse the files on your drive. Check all its sizes.. There could be movies there that eats your space.

I hope I explained to you everything you need to know..

Much appreciated if you rate this help.. thanks

Depending on your computer, if it is older, it may not be able to recognized and more than 127GB. I don't know anything about your computer, which makes this very hard for me to be more accurate. Try using it as an external on another computer and see if that changes things.

Older motherboards (before the massive Memory Increases 500Gb, 1TB) nover planned on it getting that high, so it was not in the programming.
Give that a try.. Sorry I could not be of more help..

It sounds like your hard drive is all locked up. Don't worry you can have the data retrieved from your hard drive by using this online company that I highly recommend:
http://www.gillware.com/

connect your harddisk to computer.
Then right click on my computer icon then click on "Manage"
then click on "Disk Management"

then find your removable device then you find unpartitioned space create new partition .then check.

Also check jumper settings of your harddisk.
It should not be on 16 bit or 32 bit in hardisk.

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