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Greddy87

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7. March 2010 @ 16:53

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Hey everyone.. I followed instructions and installed a new hitachi 2TB harddrive.. Both cables installed.. My pc is a year old, running Vista 64 Build OS.. Device manager Shows the harddrive but in my computer it doesnt show the hitachi harddrive.. I went on BIOS to turn on IDE Controllers, and thats when my computer loaded to windows and installed drivers for the hitachi drive and restarted.. Any ideas?..

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jony218

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7. March 2010 @ 22:52

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You need to go into administative tools/computer management/disk storage/ and format and add a drive letter to the hard drive. Without a drive letter it won't show up.

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Greddy87

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7. March 2010 @ 23:15

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Hey Jony, thanks..Its my 1st time installing a Hard drive.. Just got the drive formatting..2TB is going to be along time lol

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jony218

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8. March 2010 @ 01:12

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I forgot to mention that all you need is the quick format, that's all I use on a new drive (never takes more than 5 minutes). But the full format will also work but take longer.

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leif24

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9. March 2010 @ 21:14

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I'm also installing a new 2TB hardrive (WD20EADS)and have some questions about configuring.
I want to use my new drive as one large partition for storage to exclusively hold my mkv 1080p movies which range from 6-16 GB each. With this in mind, what allocation unit size should I format the drive with? Before loading hardrive up with movies I understand I should run western digital utility- extend zeroes/smart test error checking first. Anything else I should know to setup hardrive? All jumpers should be off of harddrive right?

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jony218

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9. March 2010 @ 22:05

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for large video files use ntfs and use the 64kb clusters. Thats all I use on my mediapc hard drives.
I notice using the 64kb clusters it helps keeping the drives from defragmenting too much especially as they get full.

I have 4 hard drives on my mediapc, using perfectdisk defragmenter. One thing I notice with perfectdisk set to defrag automatically was that 3 drives where always under 1 percent fragmented, 1 drive was always at 12 percent fragmented. further review showed me that the the drive that was always 12 fragmented was set at 4kb clusters. Even when I did a manual defrag it was still getting heavily fragmented. The large 64kb clusters do work from my experience.

I also didn't notice any downside from using the 64kb clusters.

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-14923.html

I never have done any error checking etc on a new drive, usually I just use the quick format and that's it.

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