How can I format a 1.5TO HD

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Stephen Ellis

I have just added a 1.5 terra octet hard disk to my system and am unable to
format it correctly.

When I ask Vista Pro to do a straightforward format it blocks at 73%
(roughly 1 terra). I have tried 3 times to get the same result so I thought
that I would outsmart the system by making two partititions one of 976.56go
and the second of 420.70go but although the first partition was accepted and
formatted, the second format is blocked at 11%.....

Help!! How can I use my full 1.5terra?

Steve

ps
What is GPT?
 
Stephen Ellis said:
I have just added a 1.5 terra octet hard disk to my system and am unable
to format it correctly.

When I ask Vista Pro to do a straightforward format it blocks at 73%
(roughly 1 terra). I have tried 3 times to get the same result so I
thought that I would outsmart the system by making two partititions one of
976.56go and the second of 420.70go but although the first partition was
accepted and formatted, the second format is blocked at 11%.....

Help!! How can I use my full 1.5terra?

Steve

ps
What is GPT?
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Do you by any chance have nVidia chipset? Right click Computer (Vista) or
My Computer (XP) then left click Device Manager. Left click + next to System
devices. Look for PCI System Management and if it has NVIDIA nForce in
front of it you have an nVidia Chipset. Some nVidia chipsets do have issues
with 1.5 TB drives. (I got mine cheaply from Dell and installed in a
Gateway system. Had the same issue you are describing. Gateway directed me
to the fix.

Go to http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us and choose option
2, Motherboard drivers to have their scan software install. Accept the
program at the top of the browser. When it scans your system it will tell
you the current driver installed and then the recommended driver. The
driver will probably be about 50 MB in size.

Hope this helps, let us know.
 
LVTravel said:
Do you by any chance have nVidia chipset? Right click Computer (Vista) or
My Computer (XP) then left click Device Manager. Left click + next to
System devices. Look for PCI System Management and if it has NVIDIA
nForce in front of it you have an nVidia Chipset. Some nVidia chipsets do
have issues with 1.5 TB drives. (I got mine cheaply from Dell and
installed in a Gateway system. Had the same issue you are describing.
Gateway directed me to the fix.

Go to http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us and choose
option 2, Motherboard drivers to have their scan software install. Accept
the program at the top of the browser. When it scans your system it will
tell you the current driver installed and then the recommended driver.
The driver will probably be about 50 MB in size.

Hope this helps, let us know.
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See also
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=206391&NewLang=en&Hilite=
if a Seagate 1.5 TB drive model ST31500341AS.
 
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