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[wftomlin]

Sorry, I've tried to follow directions on this site and the Intel/Win7 sites to no avail.

I have a Seagate ST3000DM001. I have an Intel DH67GD board that supports UEFI. I'm running Win7 Home Premium 64 bit. ALL this should support a NON boot drive > 2TB.

I'm using this as a storage drive...NOT a boot drive.

When I go the 'Control Panel' route, and set to GPT, the drive shows up as a 746.39GB drive. DiskWizard shows it as 746.5. IF I go ahead and format it, is it going to become a 3TB drive?

I can't believe this is so difficult!

Thanks

[Cantbecanit]

LOL, you have to enable UEFi in the bios and also XHD if you have it, once you format it it should show a 2.7TB usable partition (do quick format), have a read of my set up guide if you get stuck further, but the 746GB is the normal size the drive gets given if not set up right.

p.s you need the Intel RST drivers on your boot drive as well.

[0zone]

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wftomlin wrote:

Sorry, I've tried to follow directions on this site and the Intel/Win7 sites to no avail.

I have a Seagate ST3000DM001. I have an Intel DN67GD board that supports UEFI. I'm running Win7 Home Premium 64 bit. ALL this should support a NON boot drive > 2TB.

I'm using this as a storage drive...NOT a boot drive.

When I go the 'Control Panel' route, and set to GPT, the drive shows up as a 746.39GB drive. DiskWizard shows it as 746.5. IF I go ahead and format it, is it going to become a 3TB drive?

I can't believe this is so difficult!

Thanks

Having the same problem with an Intel DH67BL.  Barracuda ST3000DM001 (Wow those numbers get smaller and smaller), for storage (not boot) only, UEFI in BIOS set, Seagate DiscWizard only recognizes 7 some odd hundred of GB.

Like you, I've spent the best of the last two days trolling the web for an answer, but I've not found one that works for me.

Details:

Intel MOBO DH67BL

i3-2120T

Intel SATA III on board interface.

Win 7 64 Pro

New build, latest drivers for everything but the screws that hold the case together ! ;-/

Help

[wftomlin]

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0zone wrote:

Having the same problem with an Intel DH67BL.  Barracuda ST3000DM001 (Wow those numbers get smaller and smaller), for storage (not boot) only, UEFI in BIOS set, Seagate DiscWizard only recognizes 7 some odd hundred of GB.

Like you, I've spent the best of the last two days trolling the web for an answer, but I've not found one that works for me.

Details:

Intel MOBO DH67BL

i3-2120T

Intel SATA III on board interface.

Win 7 64 Pro

New build, latest drivers for everything but the screws that hold the case together ! ;-/

Help

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I set UEFI in the BIOS also. I think XHD is a Gigabyte mobo thing. Doesn't apply to Intel. I've only been at it for 9 hours. Looks like you've got a head start.

[wftomlin]

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Cantbecanit wrote:

LOL, you have to enable UEFi in the bios and also XHD if you have it, once you format it it should show a 2.7TB usable partition (do quick format), have a read of my set up guide if you get stuck further, but the 746GB is the normal size the drive gets given if not set up right.

p.s you need the Intel RST drivers on your boot drive as well.

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Thanks for responding.

BIOS shows 3000.5GB. RST shows it's connected to port 1 - 6Gb/s - 2,795 GB. In CP, if I set it to MBR, it displays 746.52GB. Set it BACK to GPT and it shows as 746.39GB. SO, setting as GPT actually makes it appear SMALLER!!!

[bjf2002]

Have either of you tried it without UEFI?  I don't know if that requires a Windows reinstallation or not, but Intel's UEFI implementation could have some kinks in it. You're not using the drive as a boot drive anyway (who in their right mind would?), so it's not needed.

I hesitiate to mention this too, since it's the easiest way to kill an Intel motherboard short of a shotgun, but what BIOS revision are you each on?  I looked at the revision notes and don't see much of anything about drives, certainly nothing about this, but if you get desperate it's something to keep in mind, though it feels more of a Windows issue to me.

BTW, what's this about?

http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/223651en 

[Cantbecanit]

Ok guys, looking back in my set up thread, page 4 halfway down it does appear to be a format problem you have,

I had already had this drive set up as a boot drive previously and I think mthis maybe the reason you are only seeing the 750GB bit,

Mine runs full on Win 7, however I was messing around the other week and made an XP boot drive, when I hotswapped the 3TB in it showed the 750GB only as well, as I have too much stuff on it now I couldn't go any further with it to enable the full drive,

What I suggest is this

Hook the drive up as if you were going boot drive on it and run Win 7 set up, if when you get to the format page it's still 750GB reboot and hold F6 when it asks, then select the sata driver from your MB set up disk, hopefully now it should be showing the whole drive, format it and then simply shutdown when Win 7 goes for a reboot so you don't get an O/S, if this fails try again in AHCi mode.

The one critical thing is to have the Intel RST drivers installed on the boot drive, these are crucial for the drive to work properly even though it's not your boot drive, and the other thing I noted was I formatted in NTFS rather than GPT but I don't believe that is the issue at this stage.

[wftomlin]

I booted a 'Live' version of Ubuntu 11.04 and formatted the drive with a GUID Partition Table. Then, I created a partition (using the ENTIRE disk size). It formated OK, but gave me a warning message saying the partition was misaligned by 3072 bytes which could result in poor performance. It suggested repartitioning, but no matter what size I tried, I got some variant of 512 (3072 or 1536).

I ran a 'Read' performance test and the results were:

94.7 MB/s min

214.6 MB/s max

166.1 MB/s avg

Avg seek 14.7ms

Same test on the 500GB (boot) drive were:

49.0 MB/s min

112.3 MB/s max

82.6 MB/s avg

Avg seek 17.7ms

The boot drive is a 3Gb/s and the results are about half of the 3TB, so that makes sense.

Is this gonna give me trouble down the road? Anyone have any free windows disk performance tests I can try? The Linux program I used needed a completely BLANK disk to perform 'write' tests.

I rebooted into windows and it looks like a 2,794.52GB drive.

Thanks again for replying.

[Cantbecanit]

You guys are trying too hard, use my set up guide, the two most important factors are Diskwizard for non UEFi bios PC's and Intel RST for both non and enabled,

You should get the full drive showing in Vista or 7 once you have a boot drive set up with RST drivers and console,

If it's XP you will need to slice it in three partitions,

If it's a slave in Vista and 7 if Diskwizard is loaded onto the boot drive, it should simply need formatting,

And don't use the Diskwizard that you get sent to in Downloads, it's older and not suitable, use the version linked in my set up thread,

I'm sorry I can't replicate for you right now as I have too much on mine to be messing about with it, but it is no harder than any other drive to set up tbh, follow my guides on page 1 and 4 and you should be up and running, both methods are how I set up, initially from a blank and then from a re-format, you are basically missing a driver step out somewhere.

[wftomlin]

Thanks for replying.

SUCCESS!!! [EDIT]...sort of

I had some problems when I got to the 'Format' stage. it showed up as 2 partitions - both unallocated:

Disk0 - 2048.0GB

Disk1 - 746.5GB

I couldn't delete either to make ONE larger space. I created a partition on the 2TB space. But I couldn't do anything with the 746 space. I deleted the 2TB partition. There was an error message indicating I couldn't install windows on either system. Something about EFI, although I'd enabled it in the BIOS. Anyway, after deleting and repartitioning a couple of times, It suddenly became ONE partition of 2794GB. I formatted it and hit the power button to kill the install.

I hooked my original win7 drive back up, re-booted and win7 now sees the D: drive as 2,794.30GB.

HOWEVER when I scanned the drive with chkdsk I get bad sectors, which are fixed, but then the drive shows up as 2794GB with 746GB FREE.

I've also posted this thread on the Intel board and after reading this, am suspecting the RST driver. I'm going to try downloading a different version and see what happens.