razor2997
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I have two Hard drives in my pc, one is a Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB that is running my primary OS which is Windows 7. I also have a Samsung EcoGreen 2TB that is running Windows 8 Release Preview. My Western Digital is running perfect but me Samsung lost majority of its storage and Windows 7 will only let me format the Capacity to 875GB which is less than half than what it is suppose to handle.
The error didn't occur until I pulled the hd from my pc and connected in to my XBOX 360 with an external hd case. While using on my Xbox, I used the customize hd capacity and allowed 10GB of the hd to be reserved for my xbox while the rest was reserved for Windows 8. After a couple days, I stopped using it on my xbox and put it back into my computer and tried to boot Windows 8 from it. It said that the boot files couldn't be found so I started up my Windows 7 on my other hard drive. Since it couldn't read my Windows 8, I figured that since I didn't have anything important on the hard drive that I might as well format it. So I used the Windows 7 format tools and I told it to restore device defaults, checked quick format, and clicked start (during this time it said that the default capacity was set to 1.81TB). As soon as the format window appeared, it gave me an error message. I tried to format it again but this time with a full format and when I went in to restore device defaults, it said the default capacity was set to 875GB.
I checked to make sure that I didn't split it into two partitions and I also ran error check and disk defragmenting but nothing has helped.
This is a lot of space to just disappear off a hard drive so if you could help me out, then I would much appreciate it!
Thank you,
Razor2997
The error didn't occur until I pulled the hd from my pc and connected in to my XBOX 360 with an external hd case. While using on my Xbox, I used the customize hd capacity and allowed 10GB of the hd to be reserved for my xbox while the rest was reserved for Windows 8. After a couple days, I stopped using it on my xbox and put it back into my computer and tried to boot Windows 8 from it. It said that the boot files couldn't be found so I started up my Windows 7 on my other hard drive. Since it couldn't read my Windows 8, I figured that since I didn't have anything important on the hard drive that I might as well format it. So I used the Windows 7 format tools and I told it to restore device defaults, checked quick format, and clicked start (during this time it said that the default capacity was set to 1.81TB). As soon as the format window appeared, it gave me an error message. I tried to format it again but this time with a full format and when I went in to restore device defaults, it said the default capacity was set to 875GB.
I checked to make sure that I didn't split it into two partitions and I also ran error check and disk defragmenting but nothing has helped.
This is a lot of space to just disappear off a hard drive so if you could help me out, then I would much appreciate it!
Thank you,
Razor2997
