2 TB showing 1 TB in BIOS

[albinloan]

Hi,

I've just bought a new hard drive: Western Digital 2TB Green.

In BIOS (and windows 7 ) it shows as 1 TB when it should be 2 TB.

My motherboard: Gigabyte P35 DQ6 (latest BIOS update F9)

I've tried different cables, ports and so on. I've also tried reset BIOS (clear cmos).
Can someone help me?

Thank you
Albin Loán

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

Have you made sure that it is not partitioned into two ?

If it isn't I wouild guess that your BIOS is haveing a problem reading the size of the drive. If you are not running the latest version of the BIOS I would suggest updating it now with QFlash.

[albinloan]

Hey you!

Thank you!

Yes, it's not partioned into two, only one.

I've updated to the latest BIOS version (F9). I had F7b before, same problem there. Thats why I updated.

I read on inet that people have same problem, with DS3 & 4 though. Those motherboards are "little brother" to DQ6 and I just find it strange that doesnt work on my motherboard.

[Dark Mantis]

What OS are you running ?

What format system have you used for the drive ?

[albinloan]

Remember, in BIOS it says 1 TB so it should matter in Windows, BUT, the format system is NTFS and I'm running W7 -32bit.

[Dark Mantis]

In that case I can't see any problem with the BIOS or Windows seeing the full size. 

[albinloan]

UPDATE:

Problem Solved.

This kind of problem has to do with a bugg on Gigabyte motherboards and has to do with the BIOS Xpress recovery someting bla bla.

To solved this:
www.hdat2.com

Superb! Thank you all!

[Dark Mantis]

Well I am glad you managed to find the cause and sort it. Another of these bundled programs causes problems.