Vista 64 showing the wrong capacity for Lacie 1 TB USB HDD

[Jon]

Hi, I just bought an external 1 terabyte USB Hard disk from Lacie. The
problem is that Vista is only showing it to have a capacity of 9,99 MB. I've
updated my EVGA 680i motherboard with the latest drivers and I've installed
the latest nVidia nForce drivers as well. I've also tried formatting it to
both NTSF and FAT32 but still the same result, I can't put anything larger
than 10 MB on it.

Can anyone help? I tried the HDD on an XP 64 machine as well and got the
same problem by the way.

 

[Jon]

I should clarify that when I wrote latest motherboard drivers I really meant
the latest BIOS update from EVGA.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Jon,

Please clarify the capacity: Is it showing as 999MB or 9,999MB? Are you
certain it's MB and not GB? What does disk manager state about the drive and
its volumes?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Ghostintheshell]

Hi, I just bought an external 1 terabyte USB Hard disk from Lacie. The
problem is that Vista is only showing it to have a capacity of 9,99
MB. I've updated my EVGA 680i motherboard with the latest drivers and
I've installed the latest nVidia nForce drivers as well. I've also
tried formatting it to both NTSF and FAT32 but still the same result,
I can't put anything larger than 10 MB on it.

Can anyone help? I tried the HDD on an XP 64 machine as well and got
the same problem by the way.

Try the following (WILL ERASE ALL DATA)

open disk management

ID the drive number listed (IE disk 1, disk 2, etc) THIS IS VERY
IMPORTANT

open a DOS prompt

type in DISKPART

enter SELECT(enter a space)DISK(enter a space)X where X is the drive
number from disk management

enter CLEAN and wait a few moments to finish

you may close all DOS windows at this point

your drive is totally uninitialized at this point

right click on the icon to the left (red dot w/ white line) select
INITIALIZE

once initialized, right click on bar grah and select NEW SIMPLE VOLUME

follow the prompts to format the drive. I recommend using the quick
format as a 1TB drive will take a long time and not as successful. Do NOT
use use file and folder compression.

HTH

 

[Theis]

Hi, I just bought an external 1 terabyte USB Hard disk from Lacie. The
problem is that Vista is only showing it to have a capacity of 9,99 MB. I've
updated my EVGA 680i motherboard with the latest drivers and I've installed
the latest nVidia nForce drivers as well. I've also tried formatting it to
both NTSF and FAT32 but still the same result, I can't put anything larger
than 10 MB on it.

I had the same problem, here is how you solve it:


Please follow these steps:

First launch the "Regional and Language Options" from the Windows Control
Panel

The first combo menu you see (in "Standards and formats" should display your
current language (e.g. Danish or Swedish etc.)

Change it to English (United States)

Click Apply (but don't close that window)

Double click the drive icon in "My Computer"

This will launch LaCie Setup Assistant in English

Follow the instructions on LaCie Setup Assistant and wait for it to
initialize your disk

When it's done, change back the Regional Settings to your language.

 

[American]

I just had this problem with a returned hard-drive I bought at a computer store. I only paid $17 for it,and STILL was thinking of returning it. BUT I found this on the Lacie website with a bit of digging that showed me the steps to show the almost 1TB of the hard-drive. (After all they never are the full amount they call them)

http://www.lacie.com/support/support_manifest.htm?id=10446&guideid=10250

Hope this helps everyone after with this problem. I joined here just so I could post this!