cant read HDD while installing XP

by HugTheSub • 9 Feb 2009, 19:05 • Journals
so i got some new hardware and wanted to setup another PC with a nice 800gig (1 terrabyte) HDD. booting it for the first time from CD it showed the whole free space without partition. i set the first one up and wanted the other half to be the second. however while the second arranged the PC crashed and now it cant read the HDD anymore in the install... any ideas how to "reset a sATA" ??
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Panda 9 Feb 2009, 19:15
8000GB = 1TB? LoL
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dEzIrE 9 Feb 2009, 19:16
1024 i guess? :D
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Panda 9 Feb 2009, 19:18
1000
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JobCohen 9 Feb 2009, 19:20
1024.. binary numbers afaik.
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Panda 9 Feb 2009, 19:22
1024 binary/1000 decimal
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bira 9 Feb 2009, 19:27
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_drive#Capacity_measurements "lalalalalala 30gb as 28gb", then u can imagine how big the difference is at 1TB
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Anarkii 9 Feb 2009, 19:28
"An NTFS formatted terabyte hard disk or partition in Windows XP shows 931 gigabytes of free space."
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bira 9 Feb 2009, 19:31
kk I didn't read it all :) But that sounds strange since they count differently + windows cuts of 10% (I think) for it's MBR
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Quazz 9 Feb 2009, 20:43
That's adjustable though
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bira 9 Feb 2009, 21:19
:S how the hell do you adjust that?
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Quazz 10 Feb 2009, 15:41
In register
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bira 10 Feb 2009, 16:43
eh.. what? isn't the MFT like a partition on the harddrive?
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Quazz 10 Feb 2009, 16:58
You can adjust the size though

But no need to make it bigger on a 1 TB HDD as MFT size is determined by % of the HDD space
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plekter 9 Feb 2009, 23:15
[picky]
Dude, MBR takes one sector. You're referring to the filesystem metadata.
[/picky]
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bira 9 Feb 2009, 23:24
Thats true mate, and its called MFT.. was just mixing up words, MBR doesn't have anything to do with the filesystem :P
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dEzIrE 9 Feb 2009, 19:22
what wes bo said

128
256
512
1024
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fred 9 Feb 2009, 19:31
more like 926.5 GB....
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dEzIrE 9 Feb 2009, 19:32
"128
256
512
1024"

i thought it was based on that stuff, just like memory etc
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Panda 9 Feb 2009, 19:34
Depends how you calculate it @,@
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dEzIrE 9 Feb 2009, 19:35
guess so :D
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fred 9 Feb 2009, 19:41
it is. but you dont get MORE you get LESS
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dEzIrE 9 Feb 2009, 19:42
i know but ~100 is quite much isnt it :D
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Snorfiets 9 Feb 2009, 21:02
thats because of the stores, they sell 1000 gb as like.. 1000 mb per gb while its supposed to be 1024
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bira 9 Feb 2009, 19:16
that.. is actually true
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h8m3 9 Feb 2009, 19:26
"gigabit" suits!
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plekter 9 Feb 2009, 23:16
image: kilobyte
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Panda 9 Feb 2009, 23:27
lol@ KBa
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plekter 9 Feb 2009, 23:30
did you check my friends band?
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Panda 10 Feb 2009, 00:30
I sure did! I quite like them too, though they should up the tempo a bit LoL :)
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Nonix 9 Feb 2009, 19:19
I need that hard drive !
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h8m3 9 Feb 2009, 19:26
/me wants 8000GB HDD :D
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fred 9 Feb 2009, 19:29
right click on "my computer" and choose "manage"

go to "disk management"

there you can remove and create new partitions.
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HugTheSub 9 Feb 2009, 19:47
well actually windows is not installed so no clicking....
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EiNIX 9 Feb 2009, 20:48
xp needs sata drivers,
vista doesn't but u can load drivers at install

(Yes i know ur drive already worked, but that was my problem :-|)
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hex4 9 Feb 2009, 19:47
you dont have enough space
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JobCohen 9 Feb 2009, 19:52
More like captain stupid
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