sreisig1 Posted May 19, 2014 Posted May 19, 2014 I don't know if anyone can help me, but I have an internal 4TB Seagate HDD, it has about 3 1/2TB of data on it. My computer is running Windows 7 Pro. Brought it over to my friends house and tried it on both of his computers (one has XP and one has Win7) and the drive isn't recognized and doesn't even show up in disc management. But when plugged into my computer it's fine. Anyone know how to get my friend's computer to recognize the drive or at least know what the issue could be? Thanks!
dougan78 Posted May 19, 2014 Posted May 19, 2014 I would say possibly age of the computers, make sure the bios is up to date on those computers. Does the drive show up in the bios? I would make sure the controllers are enabled for that specific sata port. Alternately take your computer over to his house and just copy the data via the network? Make sure you have 10/100/1000, will take forever no matter what you do anyway.
rascaluk Posted May 19, 2014 Posted May 19, 2014 How are you connecting it? Sata or via USB caddy? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
gigapig Posted May 19, 2014 Posted May 19, 2014 That 4TB drive will be using a GPT partition table which XP certainly won't see, maybe there's drivers or a fix out there. I'd be very concerned about messing with things in case you loose the data on it. For W7 it may need to be set in the bios or you may need to turn on AHCI. There is a registry hack to switch it on in windows.
sreisig1 Posted May 19, 2014 Author Posted May 19, 2014 On the windows 7 computer, I'm in Bios and don't see the drive. Only the operating system drive. This computer only has 2 sata ports. Swapped the ports and same issue.
dougan78 Posted May 19, 2014 Posted May 19, 2014 Well there is your answer judging by the 2 sata slots the computer seems older. I would say bios update. If it doesn't see it then I would just order a cables 2 go part number: 30504. Can hook any drive up to a computer with USB. Comes in handy for anything always have one in my tool bag. Good luck! Cheers!
sreisig1 Posted May 20, 2014 Author Posted May 20, 2014 Turns out the drive started to malfunction and is now a dead drive :/ Looks like I'll be returning the drive to Amazon. Thanks guys.
boomerps2 Posted May 20, 2014 Posted May 20, 2014 Turns out the drive started to malfunction and is now a dead drive :/ Looks like I'll be returning the drive to Amazon. Thanks guys. Seagate used to be what I bought but not anymore. It seems as though Seagate dropped in quality. Toshiba is what I buy now.
sreisig1 Posted May 21, 2014 Author Posted May 21, 2014 Yea. I've got a Western Digital black drive. It's been performing great.
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