I was searching for some X300 specs and found that, apparently, all X300 has Advanced Format (AF).
Toshiba - Internal Hard Drives - X300
ArthurDent, you wrote about some specific Toshiba tools. What are they for?
As the drive is under warranty, maybe you can ask for a replacement.
Look what I have found -
New WDB 5tb only shows 561gb | Tom's Hardware Forum
Windows can only see 500GB of a 5TB External drive? Speccy can see it'''s just under 5TB... : techsupport
New 5TB WD Green EZRX HDD only showing 561GB capacity Solved - Windows 7 Help Forums
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...c-85e2f98083fa
Use the drive internally.
Are there Toshiba HDD software tools for this drive?
Maybe an e-mail to Toshiba Support if all else fails?
ArthurDent, did this began after a Win 10 clean install on the SSD?
I think you need to install the Intel drivers that I gave you the links (post#27).
Here's another idea out of my head -
Pull the SSD, install the HDD and see if you could do a Custom Install of W10 on that HDD.
Custom Install Windows 10
You can modify partitions later as the 2nd drive.
Hi,
BIB: Short answer is, "I don't know" as I haven't yet run them. Don't (on first glance) seem as comprehensive as WD, Seagate or HGST's.
BIR: That's my last 'Go to' as the drive has personal stuff on it and I'd like to access it to securely erase it if the disk needs to be returned. That's why I'd like to get access in the first instance.
Nope. The disk was Win 7 and a bootable system disk. The Windows 10 SSD is nothingto do with the issue, apart from when the drive didn't boot (and a Linux Live CD couldn't access it - see post #15), I needed some way of trying to access the disk in order to sort it out.
Art
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Now that is a good idea!Here's another idea out of my head -
Pull the SSD, install the HDD and see if you could do a Custom Install of W10 on that HDD.
Custom Install Windows 10
You can modify partitions later as the 2nd drive.
Now #3 on my list of "things to try"!
Art
FWIW
I have a Toshiba 5TB X300 hard drive in this system. Bought it February 2019.
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Can't tell you anything about whether this disk has an AF designation on the drive.
But I installed the drive brand new, out of the box, into a working system (OS on NVME), and initialized it GPT, created partitions, and formatted without a second thought.
I'm not sure about the idea that all X300 drives are the AF type.
Just a quick observation.
If this is true, then that translation circuit wouldn't exist if it was installed as an internal drive and formatted as such.
TV2 Mentioned a RAW partition. I agree that is an indicator and I've also seen issues with GPT and MBR. In the past my personal solution was to use linux to wipe the partition but not actually format it. Then boot into windows and use the disk manager to create the partition within windows.
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