GA-P61A-D3 HEFI Bios Does't Read in full capacity of my WD Caviar Green 3TB

[mzakiy86]

I hope my problem can be discuss in here...

I've a review about this motherboard that can support largge scale of HDD. But after installing WD Caviar Green 3TB it just showed 2000.4GB in bios. Is there anythig that i can do to solve this prolem. My OS is Win 7 64bit exactly just read 2000GB.

[Acebmxer]

Re: GA-P61A-D3 HEFI Bios Does't Read in full capacity of my WD Caviar Green 3TB

You have to format the drive as a GPT partition not MBR. Also you will not be able to use this drive as a boot drive if you set it up as a GPT drive, only MBR drives are boot able. If you want to boot to the drive and have access to all 3tb you need to partition the drive in 2 partitions either 1 2tb partition and 1, 1tb partition or spit it 50/50 2, 1.5tb partitions.

Also make sure you are using the latest bios for your board.

[mzakiy86]

Re: GA-P61A-D3 HEFI Bios Does't Read in full capacity of my WD Caviar Green 3TB

You have to format the drive as a GPT partition not MBR. Also you will not be able to use this drive as a boot drive if you set it up as a GPT drive, only MBR drives are boot able. If you want to boot to the drive and have access to all 3tb you need to partition the drive in 2 partitions either 1 2tb partition and 1, 1tb partition or spit it 50/50 2, 1.5tb partitions.

Also make sure you are using the latest bios for your board.

I'm already setup new F9 bios.
Do I just using disk management from Windows

OR

Do you have any experience with this software:
Acronis True Image WD Edition.

Thank you for information.

[Acebmxer]

Re: GA-P61A-D3 HEFI Bios Does't Read in full capacity of my WD Caviar Green 3TB

You can use what ever software you want to use, either will work.