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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: ShadowsCry2 on October 28, 2011, 03:26:21 pm
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I recently purchased a Gigabyte x58A-OC Motherboard REV 1.0. I just built a pretty hefty gaming rig and when I finally went to install the 3TB Hard drive using WIN 7 Ultimate 64 bit the installation would only recognize 2 TB of the Drive and would continue to dismiss 900 GB of the remainder. I installed the OS and sure enough it's showing I have 1.99 TB of my drive with a 100MB system partition and 900GB unaccounted for.
I read a few internet blogs about how this was an issue on "older" BIOS versions of some motherboards failing to recognize anything past 2.2TB of Hard Drives as the 3TB are a recent addition. I thought it might be a WIN 7 error but it looks like it's the BIOS and I'm unsure how to correct this and I was unable to discover an update for the BIOS ( I don't think there is one yet though Gigabyte does currently have a BETA BIOS flash out).
Has anyone else had this issue or know how to resolve it? :-\
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Yup!
Nothing to do with Gigabyte but Widows own NTFS filing system.....will only support up to 1.99999999999TB.......for 2 TB and above GDP filing system must be used on the onset Format process prior to OS install......Back to the drawing board 99 ;)..............it should be covered in the manual that came with the expensive Frisbee.
If not, post back with your questions.
Aussie Allan
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As Allan says you will need to format it as GPT instead of NTFS.
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I appreciate the responses, So now how do i go about re-formatting the drive to GPT