New hard drive problems

[jon76]

Hi, could anyone help me please, I bought a new samsung 1tb hard drive and have put it as my new drive, since putting it in I have had nothing but problems, at first it only recognised it as 8gb and when it finished the format it said it couldn't format successfully, I then tried again and for some reason it shown it as the correct size but when I formatted and the computer restarted it failed to boot and said press control alt delete to restart, I tried again but created a 500gb partition and it worked, xp installed however when xp loaded up it only shows on partition, the second 500gb seems to have vanished, is this something to do with a hardware limit with xp?

 

[StrangleHold]

Slipstream SP3 to your XP cd using nLite and try again. Delete all partitions and start over.

 

[johnb35]

You may have a bad hard drive. Download and run samsungs disk diagnostic utility.

Either the ES Tool located here.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/downloads/ESTOOL301v_CDROM.zip

Or HUTIL located here.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/downloads/Hutil210_iso_for_CDROM_drive.zip

You will need to download and then unzip the file and then use burning software to burn the iso image to a cd and then boot to the cd and run the extended test.

 

[jon76]

Thanks for taking the time to reply people, I have now resolved the problem, I found a free partition manager and removed the unalocated space, I was quite shocked to find a program for free that could do that, maybe it had something to do with sp3 as strangle hold mentioned as I have sp3 installed now

 

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