3TB Hard Drive problems with Dell M1730

Hi guys,

So I got this brand spanking new "HITACHI 3.5 3TB 5400 RPM IDK BULK PACK HARD DRIVE" mounted it in an enclosure and attached it to my Dell M1730 via usb. It was seen by the laptop via Disk Management but it only shows 746.39 Gigabytes, even though I chose the GUID Partition Table (GPT) option rather than the MBR.

I have lloked around the internet for solutions for this but it just seems my M1730 wont recognize it even though its running under Windows 7 x64.

Is this a hopeless case?

HELP!!!

My Machine:

XPS M1730, Intel Core 2 Duo T9300(2.5GHz, 800Mhz, 6M L2 Cache)
8700M GT DUAL SLI
Windows 7 x64

 

I had the same issues with my WD 3TB drive. It was the enclosure, even though it said it supported drives up to 3TB it didn't. Sent that enclosure back and used and old Seagate GoFlex Desk 1TB enclosure and USB 3.0 adapter base and it works just fine. Also don't use GPT partition or the drive will not be recognized by any other computer. Make 2 MBR partitions and use Dynamic Disk to combine the 2 partitions.

 

entrywounds,

I think I will try that, I honestly never thought it would be the enclosure. The enclosure I have right now is a no-name that looks like an old desktop PC that's been cut in half, and I believe the usb connection is only 2.0

I checked on Evil-bay and saw this "ORICO 3TB 3.5” SATA1/2/3 HDD 2*3TB=6TB Hard Disk Enclosure" and according to the specs it supports the newest super speed USB3.0 interface technique. Its the cheapest I can find priced at $139.79 and its coming all the way from Hong Kong.

I'll keep looking online, thanks for the advice!

 

If you look at amazon you can get a Seagate GoFlex Desk Adapter base for $25.00 and you can get the matching hard drive case on sleaze-bay for $10.00.