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needtogetarmy
CEO of Project Mayhem
I ordered my hard drive and cables on EBay and got them in within 2 days!
Installing 2TB hard drives is tricky though. There was no support on HP sites and I had to dig through numerous forums.
People think Vista and other OS's have problems with 2TB (and 1.5TB) hard drives but the problem is with the SATA drivers.
After numerous hours of messing with it, and an unsuccessful 6 hour formatting nightmare, I found that you need to update the NVida SATA drivers. I went to their site and it was up and running in no time.
I mention this because if someone here gets a new 2TB hard drive you will get tons of errors, like "Cables not attached" or you will try to format it and it will lock up at 54%.
Hopefully this will same someone some time.
Also, the drivers at HP will not do the trick. Vista and HP use the windows default drivers. You need the updated ones from NVida.
Cheers.
Installing 2TB hard drives is tricky though. There was no support on HP sites and I had to dig through numerous forums.
People think Vista and other OS's have problems with 2TB (and 1.5TB) hard drives but the problem is with the SATA drivers.
After numerous hours of messing with it, and an unsuccessful 6 hour formatting nightmare, I found that you need to update the NVida SATA drivers. I went to their site and it was up and running in no time.
I mention this because if someone here gets a new 2TB hard drive you will get tons of errors, like "Cables not attached" or you will try to format it and it will lock up at 54%.
Hopefully this will same someone some time.
Also, the drivers at HP will not do the trick. Vista and HP use the windows default drivers. You need the updated ones from NVida.
Cheers.
