First of all, i’ve searched for this i suppose normal question, but wasn’t lucky.
I’m the happy new user of a caviar green 3TB hard disk, it’s impressive the low noise and heat emitted from the unit. I have assembled it in a new barebone, Shuttle SH67H3. In BIOS, sata it’s set to AHCI mode (i can choose between IDE, AHCI and RAID).
My problem, is that windows 7 installer, or windows 7 itself, once installed (windows ultimate 64 bits), don´t let me creating a partition for the entire disk capacity, it´s limited to 2,19TB. So, now i have a 735GB not used space in the disk that i can’t use for a new partition, or for merging it with the existing one.
Is there any special driver to load, or disk utility or something for this problem?
Ok, as i’m reading, a solution could be converting the disk to GPT format, but as far as i know it would make the disk non-bootable, and the system only is equipped with this hard drive…
Is anyone else having problems even getting these drives to show up? I recently purchased one for my HTPC running Windows 7 x64 on an Asrock n-68 UCC board. Firstly when I plugged it in, it would only show 746.36GB, so after much googling I really didn’t seem to find any answers. Have installed Asrock’s 3TB unlocker program which did nothing, then after playing around I accidentally set the drive to a “dynamic” drive in the Disk Manager, after which I decided to put it back to a basic one, and then… now my drive doesn’t come up at all - also with Easeus Partition Manager.
Surely I haven’t killed it by doing those two things? What have other people done to even have them show up at 3TB? Is it likely to just be a motherboard driver issue? I also have the latest BIOS drivers.
