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ryansoh3
 Post subject: Only 801.6GB showing out of 3TB (Seagate 7200.14 ST3000DM001
PostPosted: December 28th, 2012, 11:35 
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Hi all,

I just noticed that my Seagate 7200.14 3TB drive was only showing 801.6 gB (746.5 GB) out of the entire 3 TB.

Thankfully, I had a RAID 1 setup and my data's safe, so I formatted this drive and it still showed 800 or so GB.

A quick error scan in HD tune showed 100% health, except it only could scan the 800 GB portion of it.

Any ideas what might have happened? Thanks!

Here's some info:

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northwind
 Post subject: Re: Only 801.6GB showing out of 3TB (Seagate 7200.14 ST3000D
PostPosted: December 28th, 2012, 12:47 
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Most probably your BIOS needs to be updated.

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ryansoh3
 Post subject: Re: Only 801.6GB showing out of 3TB (Seagate 7200.14 ST3000D
PostPosted: December 28th, 2012, 13:06 
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It was working fine the past two months... thanks for your reply though!
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ryansoh3
 Post subject: Re: Only 801.6GB showing out of 3TB (Seagate 7200.14 ST3000D
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Ah, I think the problem was to the RAID array.

Moved the HD to another SATA port and it showed the full 3TB. Thanks for your help guys!
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scratchy
 Post subject: Re: Only 801.6GB showing out of 3TB (Seagate 7200.14 ST3000D
PostPosted: December 28th, 2012, 16:47 
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Check the sector size on the SATA port then check it again on the RAID port.

It is probably as Northwind suggests and a problem with BIOS but for RAID card.

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quasimodo
 Post subject: Re: Only 801.6GB showing out of 3TB (Seagate 7200.14 ST3000D
PostPosted: December 28th, 2012, 17:09 
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4KB sector formatting, try it on a Visat/Win 7 64bit system and it should see the entire 3TB.
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