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Hey all, I'm having a problem that is just giving me a horrible time tracking down the root.
The crux of the matter is I have 2 WD EARS drives a 1.5tb and a new 2.0tb
I recently grabbed the 2tb while it was on sale because my 1.5 seemed to be having issues and I wanted to backup some of the data.
I got the 2tb installed, ran some diagnostics on it and everything seems normal so I transfered all the data from the 1.5tb to it.
Next I was trying to track down what the cause of the 1.5's problem was (it would hang up while being written to. Then I noticed a bizarre problem. In Windows (7 x64) I had setup the drive and made on large partition for the drive (~1.3tb after formatting), but I noticed that my BIOS is reporting it as being a 500gb drive. Upon further investigation the hang was occurring when I was attempting to write beyond the space reported by the BIOS.
To my agitation, soon after the 2.0tb drive (which had previously been reported as 2tb in both the BIOS and Windows) began to be reported as being only 1tb in both which made the partitioning look broken to windows (although I can still access all the data just fine via recovery tools)
Has anyone ever seen/had a similar issue? I'd say my BIOS just can't handle the drive size, except I had it working before.
Some specs:
MB: Gigabyte P35 DS3R (latest BIOS on the GB site)
OS: Windows 7 x64
Two other hard disks 640gb, 1tb working fine on all SATA ports on the board.
The crux of the matter is I have 2 WD EARS drives a 1.5tb and a new 2.0tb
I recently grabbed the 2tb while it was on sale because my 1.5 seemed to be having issues and I wanted to backup some of the data.
I got the 2tb installed, ran some diagnostics on it and everything seems normal so I transfered all the data from the 1.5tb to it.
Next I was trying to track down what the cause of the 1.5's problem was (it would hang up while being written to. Then I noticed a bizarre problem. In Windows (7 x64) I had setup the drive and made on large partition for the drive (~1.3tb after formatting), but I noticed that my BIOS is reporting it as being a 500gb drive. Upon further investigation the hang was occurring when I was attempting to write beyond the space reported by the BIOS.
To my agitation, soon after the 2.0tb drive (which had previously been reported as 2tb in both the BIOS and Windows) began to be reported as being only 1tb in both which made the partitioning look broken to windows (although I can still access all the data just fine via recovery tools)
Has anyone ever seen/had a similar issue? I'd say my BIOS just can't handle the drive size, except I had it working before.
Some specs:
MB: Gigabyte P35 DS3R (latest BIOS on the GB site)
OS: Windows 7 x64
Two other hard disks 640gb, 1tb working fine on all SATA ports on the board.