SOLVED: Issue with Gigabyte MOBO and 2TB drive

[master7045]

I recently bought a 2TB WDEARS drive from Micro Center to use in my low end server rig. I formatted the drive on my main desktop as a secondary drive and gave it the label M:\. Windows was able to format it without any issue.

I powered down my PC, took the drive out and plugged it into my server, where only 1 GB of space is being reported by the motherboard BIOS. I have a Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L w/ a Celeron 430 running windows 7 64 Bit. I've done some googling and I've found that the problem lies with the board. I guess there is a bug where on 2 TB drives, it hols 1 GB has a HDA partition? Is there any easy way to regain this lost partition?

Thanks!

 

[Dahak]

I would update the bios to the latest release which is currently F9
http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2615#bios

F7 had a fix for 1.Fix: Some of 1000 GB (1TB) HDDs will be detected size error, so it could also fix the 2tb drive detection too.

 

[master7045]

Sorry forgot to mention that I did to the BIOS update to F9, but was still having the same issue.

*I was able to get this resolved late last night. I had to boot up w/ one of the Ubuntu live CDs I had laying around and used the built in disk manager. It was able to see the extra 1TB unpartitioned space, where as Windows Disk Management only reported the 1 TB disk. I deleted the existing partition, and re-merged the two into one, 2TB partition. Rebooted the PC and voila, Windows now reports the 2 TB drive correctly. I hate computers...