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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: deranjer on September 24, 2011, 01:47:45 pm
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Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P55-USB3 (Socket 1156)
BIOS: F8, just upgraded to F10g
HDD: Hitachi 2TB 7K2000 (HDS722020ALA330
Hello,
I was hoping someone could help me with this issue that I have not been able to resolve. My Hitachi 2TB drive 7K2000 (HDS722020ALA330) is only showing up as 1TB in the BIOS and Windows 7x64. My BIOS was F8, so I upgraded it to F10g, and that hasn't helped. I downloaded Hitachi's drive fitness tool and ran that on the drive and it only detected it as 1TB as well.
I downloaded all of the new drivers off of Gibabyte's site, but that did not make a difference either, I changed the drive to AHCI in the BIOS, that didn't help either. I decided that I could just use the drive as a 1TB drive, but apparently Windows doesn't like the drive as every time I reboot it has to run chkdsk on it, most likely because it is reading the size wrong.
Is there anything else I can do to get this drive working???
Thanks!
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look if you can update disk firmware :
http://forums.servethehome.com/showthread.php?147-Hitachi-Harddisks-Thread-(5K3000-7K3000-7K2000)
or contact HITACHI
Pierre
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Thank you for your quick reply. I did update the firmware on the drive to the latest version, however, it still only detects the drive as a 1TB drive.
I don't know this is a HDD problem, as when I boot into Spinrite it detects that the BIOS is incorrectly sizing the drive. I did contact Hitachi, but I fear that when they respond they will say it is a motherboard compatibility issue/motherboard does not support drive. :(