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Title: 2 TB showing 1 TB in BIOS
Post by: albinloan on March 04, 2011, 05:45:15 pm

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

Title: Re: 2 TB showing 1 TB in BIOS
Post by: Dark Mantis on March 04, 2011, 05:50:12 pm

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.

Title: Re: 2 TB showing 1 TB in BIOS
Post by: albinloan on March 04, 2011, 06:17:03 pm

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.

Title: Re: 2 TB showing 1 TB in BIOS
Post by: Dark Mantis on March 04, 2011, 08:08:55 pm

What OS are you running ?

What format system have you used for the drive ?

Title: Re: 2 TB showing 1 TB in BIOS
Post by: albinloan on March 04, 2011, 08:17:31 pm

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.

Title: Re: 2 TB showing 1 TB in BIOS
Post by: Dark Mantis on March 04, 2011, 08:26:51 pm

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

Title: Re: 2 TB showing 1 TB in BIOS
Post by: albinloan on March 04, 2011, 10:36:19 pm

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!

Title: Re: 2 TB showing 1 TB in BIOS
Post by: Dark Mantis on March 04, 2011, 10:42:57 pm

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