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Should be able to. it's 25kg or 55lb ..

Run Drive Fitness Test on the drive http://hgst.com then resubmit your RMA and get the proper directions.

Sounds like bad sectors. You can diagnose it via the Drive Fitness Tools (http://www.hgst.com) Once you determine there are bad sectors; you can return it for replacement.

Make SURE you dont' have any data on the drive that is important (or you have a good back up) Click "COmputers" and "manage" you will need to initialize the drive for VIsta to recognize it.

Http://hgst.com and download the hitachi tools for this drive. It is set via software.

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What service pack are you running? Does your bios support the drive?

This would be a bios limitation. Formatting wont' fix the issue. Check your bios and see if it supports "lba" . Certain manufacturers offer "Drive overlay" which will allow you to use the space ..

This depends on the model. Please provide further details.

This is typically a corrupt mass storage driver in windows. You can try removing C:\windows\driver cache (may be c:\windows\system32\drivercache too.

Then reboot; and see how it works. This resolves most of of the issues. http://techrxgb.com (please join us on facebook for hints / tips and tricks)

I would recommend you check the website for the latest "bios" (also known as firmware) for the motherboard. Or, see their support to verify you can install a drive this large. Check the Logical Block Addressing (lba) and make sure your bios has it enabled. Older bio's offer several options ..If you need further help, contact us at http://techrxgb.com If you find this helpful, please give me a hands up

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If this is a new drive with nothing on it then just format it. Windows(R) will tell you what to do.

However, a 1TB drive will take ages to format if you haven't sub-divided it by partitioning* (It will take ages anyway but at least you can have a break after each partition).

If the drive already has data on it then it is likely that it is damaged. It is sometimes possible to plug it in to a different IDE or SATA connector which will allow it to be read. Sometimes a different computer can read the data.

Generally speaking, if the operating system says it's not formatted then the only thing to do is to format it.

* I find the best way to set up a drive is with a program called 'Gparted'. It is a Linux based application that runs from it's own bootable CD and partitions drives and formats them at the same time. It is much quicker than Windows(R).

GParted comes as a free, downloadable CD ISO. Google for it and instructions on it's use.

Hope this helps,

CJ

look at your hard drive itself, u should get all the info u need.

Narros it down to the hard drive being dead.

trying to install vista 64. computer can't find hitachi HDD hdt72103sla360. It is in BIOS, but not in vista

The info is not clear as to if it is a desktop or laptop . However what u could try is reseating the hdd and also get into BIOS by tapping F2 and u would find a option to restore defaults, after restoring check if the hdd is getting detected . Also make sure that external peripheral like Ext hdd and other usb devices are disconnected. Update once u have tried this.

HI there i suggest you only one thing, Please scan the device by updated antivirus. Because Its try to work, but the virus block the path and he faild to work.Thnaks.

Get hold of the Acronis Disk Director , that will wipe it back to basics for you

Yes it is possible to data recover from this hard disk to using "active partetion recover v2.0 or above" software. This software should be registered and also bootable disk. It will be possible to data recover, if it will be detect in dos mode.

Procedure:
Insert the bootable disk into CD-Rom and choose boot from the cd rom and now check your disk is detected or not, if detected follow the instruction and your all data could be recover with your complete partions.

Good Luck