Hard drive loss?

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I bought a 1TB velociraptor and told them to partition it as 300GB and 700GB.

However when I go to My Computer it only shows up the first partition as 247GB and the 700GB partition is nowhere to be found.

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vanthus

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Check in disk management to see if the drive/partition is showing there,
click "Start"/right click"computer"/Manage/under "Storage"select "Disk Management",
or click "start" and type diskmgmt.msc in search box.
It's possible you only need to assign a Drive letter,If no letter is assigned for the drive/partition,
right click on the bar of the drive in the lower half of the screen,
select "change drive letter and paths"
click on the Add button in the next menu and pick a drive letter.
Click ok to assign selected drive letter or choose your own letter from the drop down menu.
If the drive is showing as unallocated,
right click on the black bar of the "unallocated drive/partition",
click on "new simple volume"then follow the wizard.
check in "computer" to confirm missing drive/partition is showing.

The first partition showing as 247GB should be correct as windows uses a different counting method, binary as opposed to decimal. 1GB equals 1024mb where the manufactor uses 1000mb per 1GBDecimal,
eg. windows will show a 320GB drive/partion as something like 298 GB.
 
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Yamikotai

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I'm assuming you're on Windows 7. Open the Start menu, and type (or copy+paste) 'disk management'. Open the 'create and format disk partitions' option that shows up. What partitions show up on Disk 0?
 
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Hey,

It says the disk management console view is not up to date. I am going to try restarting my computer as it suggests, but it mentioned something about refreshing the task. I clicked refresh and nothing happened. Anyway, I'll brb
 
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Yamikotai said:
I'm assuming you're on Windows 7. Open the Start menu, and type (or copy+paste) 'disk management'. Open the 'create and format disk partitions' option that shows up. What partitions show up on Disk 0?
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I don't see a Disk 0. I see Disk C, D and that is it. I located the 683GB partition but whenever I click on it it gives me the response I typed in a previous comment.
 
vanthus

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This may sound odd but try updating windows,this sometimes sorts out the error "disk management console view is not up to date".
Can you post a snapshot of disk management.
 
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Attached.

Oh yeah btw, hardware literate but software illiterate here - how does one update windows?
 

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vanthus

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Click start/all programs/windows update.
Your disk management appears to be ok,apart from the system reserved partition having a drive letter,but you could easily remove the drive letter,and the 683GB
partition not having a drive letter when it should.
 
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Yeah I just managed the update. Cannot believe how fast this thing is restarting itself. So does anyone know what the problem is or should I pester tech support?
 
vanthus

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Best give tech support a call.
You may need to repartition the drive.
 
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I might need to buy a new PC by the time I get a reply. Another option I have is to format, I guess, but I abstained because I was not sure if it would make a different. I clicked on format to see what option it would give me and it said, "this is the active partition on this disk. All data on the partition will be lost. Are you sure you want to format this partition?"

Worth it or wait?
 
vanthus

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the only partition that should be active is the reserved partition,but that's what is showing on your disk management.
Might not be a bad idea to do a clean install,that should fix everything out,make sure you delete all the partitions when doing so,instructions are given in the welcome booklet.
It's quite easy to partition the drive from disk management if you want after doing so.
 
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vanthus said:
the only partition that should be active is the reserved partition,but that's what is showing on your disk management.
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I don't understand. I accidentally stuck the reserve drive on as "active", thinking it was the 700gig partition:whistling:

What do you reckon I should do? I cannot tell if it is already formatted.
 
vanthus

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The reserved partition was already active that's how it should be.If you still get the error trying to add a drive letter to the 700GB drive as I described, personally I would do a clean install,but if your not sure about doing that,best wait till you get an answer from PCS.If you have accidentally formatted the reserved partition you might need to do a clean install as the the computer probably wont restart.
If it's showing as it was in disk management you wont have reformatted it,normally the option to reformat the reserved partition is not available from disk management.
 
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Keedar

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First of all download a good free program EaseUS Partition Master 9.1.1 Home Edition.Instal it and make new partition.You will use disc for OS aswell?
If yes first partition set as primary and second as logical.If not set both as logical.
 
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