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3TB disk is being recongnized at 2.16TB Win 7 x64 with Z87 Mobo

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rimmi2002

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Hi I just installed a new Toshiba PH3300U 3TB internal HD to my Gigabyte UEFI Z87N-WIFI Mobo. When I go to format it in the windows disk utility it will only Format 2TB of the disk. I googled this. Win 7 + and UEFI Bios with 8 series SATA drivers should recognize this as a 3TB disk. Anything I am doing wrong or does my mobo for some reason just doesn't support 3 TB? I updated the Bios to F5 (lastest) still no go. Any help will be great. Thanks!
 
Burpo said:
If you're trying to use the whole drive as 1 partition, you need to enable GPT file system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
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Partition table, not file system. The file system will be NTFS (with a FAT32 special boot partition, if an OS drive). With a Z87, SATA drivers will handle >2TB just fine.

Before you format it, you have to initialize the disk. That was where you had the option to make it GPT. If you made it MBR, you'll need to destroy the partition table and start over.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2581408
 
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