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Posted by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/04/2012 09:09 AM | 47 comment(s) ]
Check these leaked roadmaps that show Western Digital's plans for its NAS-optimized Red and energy-efficient Green hard drive lineups. The slides reveal that we can expect the first 5TB HDDs about a year from now. A little earlier than that, the two lines will be updated with 4 TB variants, the WD40ERFX and WD40EZRX. All four drives feature 64 MB of cache, SATA 6 Gb/s interface, and are built in the 3.5-inch form-factor. Roadmap after the break.
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#4478743 Posted on: 12/13/2012 11:54 PM
Hitachi have deleted the webpage they gave me to sort the drive out.
To annoy them back, heres the method:
Check in disk Manager which number disk you want to fix, dont get this wrong!
Open a command prompt as Administrator (might not be necessary, but just in case), follow the prompts below.
Replace the number "4" I have used with your disk number.
Now you can right click the drive in disk manager and select "Initialise", then select the GPT option.
Hitachi have deleted the webpage they gave me to sort the drive out.
To annoy them back, heres the method:
Check in disk Manager which number disk you want to fix, dont get this wrong!
Open a command prompt as Administrator (might not be necessary, but just in case), follow the prompts below.
Replace the number "4" I have used with your disk number.
C:\Windows\system32>diskpart
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7601
Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: Your-PC-name
DISKPART> select disk 4
Disk 4 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> clean
DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.
DISKPART> exit
Leaving DiskPart...
C:\Windows\system32>
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7601
Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: Your-PC-name
DISKPART> select disk 4
Disk 4 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> clean
DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.
DISKPART> exit
Leaving DiskPart...
C:\Windows\system32>
Now you can right click the drive in disk manager and select "Initialise", then select the GPT option.
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Hitachi came through a treat.
This guide resolved it even though the state of my drive wasnt how the guide suggested it would be.
http://www.hgst.com/support/general-faqs/disk-management-says-my-hitachi-hard-drive-is-a-gpt-protective-partition
My drive never was a GPT drive, this guide assumes the drive is already GPT.
However, if it isnt GPT, when initialising the drive an option appears to create a GPT drive, so all is good.
So this method lets you create a GPT drive on USB, nice.
3.7TB ocean of binary