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First off, I want to be able to detect a 3TB hard drive with this motherboard EP45-UD3L.
I was told by GIGABYTE support that this old chipset board doesn't support 3TB, but looking this problem up online it appears possible, I just haven't been able to get it detected.
Even an PCIe SATAIII card is not detecing it properly, would still show 746 or w/e GB
I am currently in IDE mode as opposed to AHCI. I was unable to use guides to switch over with windows installed.
When I try to install Windows XP Professional x64 edition under AHCI mode it blue screens.
I download the RST drivers from Intel, 32bit and 64bit, it is strange because this version shows it works with XP x64 but I try to load it (F6 in Windows Setup) and it says it was not designed for 64-bit:
Then I try to load the 64-bit one:
(even though this one says works for server 2003 x64 which I thought xp x54 was based on, and it also listed XP 64-bit edition in this compatible for)
it accepts the driver, but there is actually no option for ICH10, there is only ICH10R, or ICH10D/DO
So it still blue screened when I selected ICH10D/DO, because I know ICH10R is the raid version of my board which I do not have
Any information is appreciated as well as of course specific advice or recommendations
EDIT:
Well I solved BOTH my problems [ :) ]
first, I just selected ICH10R out of the 64-bit RST driver pack and I was able to install XP x64 in AHCI mode.
Then it recognized the full hard drive space, but showed two unallocated sections, one was 746.51GB but all I had to do was right click the label "Disk #" and Convert to GPT Disk and then it lets me reformat one partition with the full 3TB or 2.72 GiB of space
Then I try to run under my IDE mode installation and IT still shows the full space :) but then I delete the partition, still shows the space, then I switch back to MBR partition, then goes back to 746GB, then switch to GPT and it still the same.
So I have to SETUP the partition as GPT under AHCI installation of XP x64 and then it will read it whether or not AHCI mode is enabled
I was told by GIGABYTE support that this old chipset board doesn't support 3TB, but looking this problem up online it appears possible, I just haven't been able to get it detected.
Even an PCIe SATAIII card is not detecing it properly, would still show 746 or w/e GB
I am currently in IDE mode as opposed to AHCI. I was unable to use guides to switch over with windows installed.
When I try to install Windows XP Professional x64 edition under AHCI mode it blue screens.
I download the RST drivers from Intel, 32bit and 64bit, it is strange because this version shows it works with XP x64 but I try to load it (F6 in Windows Setup) and it says it was not designed for 64-bit:
Then I try to load the 64-bit one:
(even though this one says works for server 2003 x64 which I thought xp x54 was based on, and it also listed XP 64-bit edition in this compatible for)
it accepts the driver, but there is actually no option for ICH10, there is only ICH10R, or ICH10D/DO
So it still blue screened when I selected ICH10D/DO, because I know ICH10R is the raid version of my board which I do not have
Any information is appreciated as well as of course specific advice or recommendations
EDIT:
Well I solved BOTH my problems [ :) ]
first, I just selected ICH10R out of the 64-bit RST driver pack and I was able to install XP x64 in AHCI mode.
Then it recognized the full hard drive space, but showed two unallocated sections, one was 746.51GB but all I had to do was right click the label "Disk #" and Convert to GPT Disk and then it lets me reformat one partition with the full 3TB or 2.72 GiB of space
Then I try to run under my IDE mode installation and IT still shows the full space :) but then I delete the partition, still shows the space, then I switch back to MBR partition, then goes back to 746GB, then switch to GPT and it still the same.
So I have to SETUP the partition as GPT under AHCI installation of XP x64 and then it will read it whether or not AHCI mode is enabled
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