1 TB hard drive shows up as 8 mb.

[Yousername]

I recently bought a Seagate 1 TB Desktop HDD for my computer and it shows up as 8 MB. I tried formatting it, but it still shows up a 8 MB.

 

[Lumia925]

re-patition it.
check disk manager first, if it doesn't work, use diskpart.

 

[Yousername]

re-patition it.
check disk manager first, if it doesn't work, use diskpart.

They didn't work. It stays the same at 8 MB.

 

[Lumia925]

can you post a snapshot of the disk manager graph for your new disk?

 

[Yousername]

http://imageshack.com/a/img673/9665/FcHcyz.png

 

[Samat]

http://imageshack.com/a/img673/9665/FcHcyz.png

That 9MB is just unallocated space on your old harddrive, the new harddrive isn't showing at all. It should show as a separate Disk 1 under Disk 0 on the left side of the partition view. Have you checked if your computers bios is detecting the new drive?

Edit. You seem to have a HP desktop, the key to enter bios during bootup should be F10 (or esc).

 

[Yousername]

http://imageshack.com/a/img673/9665/FcHcyz.png

That 9MB is just unallocated space on your old harddrive, the new harddrive isn't showing at all. It should show as a separate Disk 1 under Disk 0 on the left side of the partition view. Have you checked if your computers bios is detecting the new drive?

Edit. You seem to have a HP desktop, the key to enter bios during bootup should be F10 (or esc).

It doesn't show up. https://imageshack.us/i/ex1VpGQUj Maybe I didn't plug in the cables correctly.

 

[Samat]

http://imageshack.com/a/img673/9665/FcHcyz.png

That 9MB is just unallocated space on your old harddrive, the new harddrive isn't showing at all. It should show as a separate Disk 1 under Disk 0 on the left side of the partition view. Have you checked if your computers bios is detecting the new drive?

Edit. You seem to have a HP desktop, the key to enter bios during bootup should be F10 (or esc).

It doesn't show up. https://imageshack.us/i/ex1VpGQUj Maybe I didn't plug in the cables correctly.

Check those and make sure they are properly seated. Sometimes sata cables can be a bit wonky especially if they are not the type that lock in.

 

[RogellParadox]

I remember once I had this kind of problem with a SD card. It's 8gb, but it showed as 4gb.
I'd try it: http://www.electroons.com/blog/2013/02/how-to-recover-the-unallocated-space-on-your-sd-card-due-to-raspberry-pi-os/

 

[Yousername]

Yup. A cable wasn't plugged in correctly. Thanks for your help.

 

[Samat]

No problem.