Pteroduck Posted February 1, 2014 Posted February 1, 2014 Hi guys!So i bought two hard drives (used) for a bargin, but i kinda knew that i would have some problems before hand One is a WB momentus and the other is a toshiba drive. The WD is a 320gb but when I plug it in, its only 24 GB's . I have tried diskpart and formatting it/changing the format as well but as for the toshiba, it won't pop up at all. I booted up diskpart and its getting detected in there but its showing 0kb/0kb in which its actually a 250gb HD Can someone help me out? I'd be losing 10 bucks if I didnt do anything with these Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroFight Posted February 1, 2014 Posted February 1, 2014 I would say check the jumpers? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pteroduck Posted February 1, 2014 Posted February 1, 2014 No bueno, that didnt work either. Not sure if this helps but theyre laptop drives Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroFight Posted February 2, 2014 Posted February 2, 2014 Has the BIOS been kept up to date? Sometimes that can cause issues... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pteroduck Posted February 2, 2014 Posted February 2, 2014 Yeah, bios is at its latest version, i just checked Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cchalogamer Posted February 2, 2014 Posted February 2, 2014 The Toshitty...errm well Toshiba...I would toss in my pile of things to throw away personally. I've replaced more dead toshiba drives in laptops than any other brand (I've never worked with a PC brand exclusively so I get the full mix) personally and while sure some last forever I still cringe anytime I send one out the door in a new machine. As for the WD/seagate/whatever (Monentus is Seagate's mobile drive line's name vs Scorpio for WD) it really sounds like a formatting/jumper issue. if it doesn't have any jumpers on it double check the specs to be sure it's not one of them that needs a jumper to function in a normal state. Might also want to set the BIOS to IDE mode to test as well. Some early laptop drives (and some laptops for that matter) have very picky AHCI/RAID support. Just some random ideas from me @ nearly 4 in the morning for me so might have missed something. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigball1 Posted February 2, 2014 Posted February 2, 2014 I second cchalogamer as Toshiba makes crap drives. Great laptops but cant make a hard drive to save there lives. I have seen so many crap out after a year or 2. Do you know what OS was on the WD drive. Like if there was a linix OS installed on it. That why you wont see the full size of the drive as windows cant read the MBR. If not i would do a test on the drive. WD makes a diagnostics program for there own drives. Give that a shot and see what comes up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpikeSoprano Posted February 2, 2014 Posted February 2, 2014 Sorry to say but I think you know why you got the drives for $10 . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pteroduck Posted February 3, 2014 Posted February 3, 2014 Sorry to say but I think you know why you got the drives for $10 . Oh well I was kinda expecting it, but if they worked, hey its 10 bucks in my pocket right? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pteroduck Posted February 3, 2014 Posted February 3, 2014 The Toshitty...errm well Toshiba...I would toss in my pile of things to throw away personally. I've replaced more dead toshiba drives in laptops than any other brand (I've never worked with a PC brand exclusively so I get the full mix) personally and while sure some last forever I still cringe anytime I send one out the door in a new machine. As for the WD/seagate/whatever (Monentus is Seagate's mobile drive line's name vs Scorpio for WD) it really sounds like a formatting/jumper issue. if it doesn't have any jumpers on it double check the specs to be sure it's not one of them that needs a jumper to function in a normal state. Might also want to set the BIOS to IDE mode to test as well. Some early laptop drives (and some laptops for that matter) have very picky AHCI/RAID support. Just some random ideas from me @ nearly 4 in the morning for me so might have missed something. same old same old. Nothing has worked yet Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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