Vista 64 showing the wrong capacity for Lacie 1 TB USB HDD

Hi Jon,

Please clarify the capacity: Is it showing as 999MB or 9,999MB? Are you
certain it's MB and not GB? What does disk manager state about the drive and
its volumes?

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"Jon" <Jon RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, I just bought an external 1 terabyte USB Hard disk from Lacie. The
> problem is that Vista is only showing it to have a capacity of 9,99 MB.
> I've
> updated my EVGA 680i motherboard with the latest drivers and I've
> installed
> the latest nVidia nForce drivers as well. I've also tried formatting it to
> both NTSF and FAT32 but still the same result, I can't put anything larger
> than 10 MB on it.
>
> Can anyone help? I tried the HDD on an XP 64 machine as well and got the
> same problem by the way.

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"Jon" wrote:

> Hi, I just bought an external 1 terabyte USB Hard disk from Lacie. The
> problem is that Vista is only showing it to have a capacity of 9,99 MB. I've
> updated my EVGA 680i motherboard with the latest drivers and I've installed
> the latest nVidia nForce drivers as well. I've also tried formatting it to
> both NTSF and FAT32 but still the same result, I can't put anything larger
> than 10 MB on it.

I had the same problem, here is how you solve it:


Please follow these steps:

First launch the "Regional and Language Options" from the Windows Control
Panel

The first combo menu you see (in "Standards and formats" should display your
current language (e.g. Danish or Swedish etc.)

Change it to English (United States)

Click Apply (but don't close that window)

Double click the drive icon in "My Computer"

This will launch LaCie Setup Assistant in English

Follow the instructions on LaCie Setup Assistant and wait for it to
initialize your disk

When it's done, change back the Regional Settings to your language.

>
> Can anyone help? I tried the HDD on an XP 64 machine as well and got the
> same problem by the way.