W500 Seagate Hybrid 1TB SSHD Drive

Having just upgraded my ThinkPad W500's 320GB Seagate hard drive to a 1TB Seagate SSHD (hybrid) hard drive, using Drive Ware to clone the old drive to the new, everything seems to be O.K., EXCEPT Windows is behaving odd: the Start menu search function will not work, and neither will Windows Update and several other features.
Anyone face this problem? Some Internet searches have led me to believe the issue might be due to 4K Advanced Storage (found on the new drive) being incompatible with the computer, but I am lost to what, if anything, I should do. I'm running Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit.
Any advice, if this won't work, to an internal 1TB hard drive for the W500?
Thanks very much.
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Hi Commando303,
It does sound like it might be an Advanced Format issue. What operating system are you running?
There's a MS update that might help. Installing the latest Intel storage driver might also do the trick.
[edit] Found the KB article: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Windows-7-Knowledge-Base/Windows-Update-Fails-After-Installing-New-Hard-...
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i was looking at putting three 1.5 tb drives in my new octo to accompany my 1tb system drive. i notice apple only says up to 4 tb of storage. will i have issues if i try the three 1.5 tb drives. Also I have read alot of good and bad on the seagate drives from early this year. Are the current models any better?

The "up to 4 TBs" is a limitation imposed by the fact that only 1 TB drives were available when the specs were written for the computer.
If you want to learn more about Seagate drives this isn't the best place. Do some Google searching for other sites where such discussion may occur. You can also find reviews and benchmarks at Bare Feats, Storage Review, and ,Tom's Hardware Review. Also search this forum for previous discussions.

Formatting a 1TB hard drive from windows to a MAC!!

okay so i have been looking around like crazy for answers and im having such a hard time with it!!
i bought a 1TB hard drive Desk made by Seagate, problem is that my mac doesn't recognize it and everywhere i look for answers/solutions i get the same unhelpful information. My computer doesn't reconize it at all.... and it connects my USB. Any ideas mac world?

Hazelle wrote:
okay so i have been looking around like crazy for answers and im having such a hard time with it!!
i bought a 1TB hard drive Desk made by Seagate, problem is that my mac doesn't recognize it and everywhere i look for answers/solutions i get the same unhelpful information. My computer doesn't reconize it at all.... and it connects my USB.
I see his response to your post. I'm guessing you don't understanding what he is asking......no slam against you......you just may not know these things yet.
Does the Seagate Ext. only hook up by USB not FireWire ?
Do you know what Disk Utilty is and where it is located on your system? If not we'll get you there.
That is where you can mount and format it for Mac.
If a windows formatted drive is not formatted FAT32 it will not show up on your desktop but may in Disk Utility.
The other thing, you have a MacBook but are posting in a G4 tower forum. They stopped making them years ago.
But I post both places and have both machines, so I will try to get you going.
Dale

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