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I have Windows 7 and Windows Vista ultimate both 64 bit. Tried both. So my hard drive went out and I picked up a Hitachi 2 TB drive. I have an old small drive from my laptop with Windows 7 on it which I am working from now. I put this drive in and the 2 TB drive so to work with disk management. I booted up to check the BIOS and both drives are seen in BIOS. I load up Windows 7 and in my C drive I do not see the 2 TB drive.

I have right clicked on My Computer also it won't let me change letters on the Hitachi. So on to Disk Management and loaded it up and it sees all drives my small drive that is working c: the Hitachi drive reads like 2048 GB with no drive letter tells me it is healthy and online and it will not let me assign any drive letter it will not let me format, which I think this is what has to be done before it will let load Windows from a disk.

I have also loaded with the Windows disk. I get to the part where you can format, load drivers and so on but the Hitachi drive is not there?

My machine:

  • SATA drives
  • 16 gig memory
  • AMD Radeon HD770
  • Ga-9701-ud3 board
  • AMD Phenom 2x4 955 processor @ 3200mhz

There was no setup disk with the Hitachi drive and I did pick it up new.

Mokubai
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user368321
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Please take a look at this Microsoft kb article to see what is required to have a bootable system with a 2 terabyte hard drive.

Overall requirements for a bootable system volume

  • The disk must be initialized by using GPT.
  • The system firmware must use UEFI.

You are using Windows 7 64-bit, so you are on the right track. Your motherboard needs to support UEFI. You need to initialize the new hard drive in GPT format.

Sun
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