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  1. rivermonster

    Windows 8 won't access newly installed 2TB hard drive.

    rclarke, you are correct sir! By putting this crazy ass proprietary format disk in my machine, it corrupted the partition. I spent today morose and downtrodden as I thought I'd lost a LARGE amount of critical data (home movies, family photos, etc.) LUCKILY--I found Test Disk (...
  2. rivermonster

    Windows 8 won't access newly installed 2TB hard drive.

    Found the jumpers on WD's support site, and set the drive for 1.5 PHY and Spread spectrum, and no dice. Same thing-shows up in windows 8 under the device manager, but doesn't map so that it's accessible. Must be another trick to removing those from their external housings. :( Close to out of...
  3. rivermonster

    Windows 8 won't access newly installed 2TB hard drive.

    Update #1: Switched the new 2TB drive with the old Hitachi 1TB (which was working fine as the second drive before), left the old Hitachi disconnectd, and proceeded to boot into windows. This caused a CRASH. :( So I'm guessing there's an issue with the drive being treated like a normal...
  4. rivermonster

    Windows 8 won't access newly installed 2TB hard drive.

    All, anybody who has any ideas or tips--they would be greatly appreciated. Here's the situation: On a Dell Studio XPS 435MT (i7 processor, 9GB dd3 ram, 4 SATA connectors, running windows 8--with latest bios upgrade) I've had 2 drives working in the system great, the original OEM drive 640Gig...

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