Flooding in Thailand has caused Western Digital to suspend manufacturing and Chinese hard drive makers like Seagate have also been affected with some of their components come from water logged Thailand.

Older installations of Windows 2000 and XP operating systems sometimes reject or are blind to BIG harddrives of 300GB or 500 GB or more. We began to tackle how to get Windows to see the rest of the harddrive in an earlier article about the harddrive barrier, HERE and today, are happy to provide an even more complete answer.