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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: nanobiba on December 03, 2013, 10:06:36 pm

Title: problem ga 880 gma udh2 and 3tb
Post by: nanobiba on December 03, 2013, 10:06:36 pm

Hello im using win7x64 prof but only 2 tb where shown. What can i do? I know i need a uefi bios but i cant find one for my board. The 3tb+ tool from gigabyte seems to be only for x32. I spended 2 days to set up the system when i realised it.  >:( Oh please help me. The drive is a wd red series with 3 tb and i need to boot from it. Oh and i used ide mode at the install not ahci. Is that a problem? Do i need to change that? What do i have to do?

Title: Re: problem ga 880 gma udh2 and 3tb
Post by: autotech on December 04, 2013, 12:17:31 am

put your 3t drive into another computer and go to disk management and  partition it as GPT then reformat it as NFTS and initlize it and mark it as active take back to your build and install windows.

Title: Re: problem ga 880 gma udh2 and 3tb
Post by: nanobiba on December 04, 2013, 12:25:53 am

Tanks for the answer. I thought that it is not possible to boot from the drive when i do this, or am i wrong?

Title: Re: problem ga 880 gma udh2 and 3tb
Post by: autotech on December 04, 2013, 11:59:21 pm

I dont see why you cant boot from it i have a 4T in another system running windows 7 64bit and it boots fine but i had to do what i told you to do before it would boot from it.

Title: Re: problem ga 880 gma udh2 and 3tb
Post by: nanobiba on December 05, 2013, 12:25:40 pm

It doesn't work because of the normal standard, non efi/uefi bios! Suggestions? I don't find an uefi bios for my board.

Title: Re: problem ga 880 gma udh2 and 3tb
Post by: autotech on December 06, 2013, 02:31:14 am

I dont have an uefi bios so not sure what is going on. Have you tried to email Gigabyte support to see what they suggest?