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Win 7 Unable to see 3TB drive
Have a Win 7 64bit HP dc5850. Just picked up a seagate 3TB drive. Wanted to connect it to my computer via a usb drive reader. The OS picks up the drive as a generic 746GB drive. I have converted from MBR to GPT and reformatted but that did not help. Any suggestions?
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We had another question like this last month. Turned out on that machine that the BIOS and hardware wouldn't support anything over the 2.19TB limit. Look here https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27434893/3TB-support-in-Windows-2003-R2-Server.html and there are several links in that question.
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Thank you all for your help. Used the Parted Magic and all is well!
Glad to help!
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=882909&mpage=1
there is something about seagate if you go down a bit