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 Post subject: HDD dont't work over 1Terabyte
PostPosted: November 3rd, 2011, 7:00 
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Hello,
I have tried with two HDD different (Seagate and Western Digital) both of 2Tbyte of memory.
When I tested the HDD with 'Partition Assistent' and 'HD Tune', the HDD works correctly under 1Terabyte; the second Terabyte appears damaged (all blocks damaged - RED).
With 'HD Tune', over the first Terabyte, the HDD address (position) becomes negative!!!
In add, it is impossible to format the second Terabyte in the HDD with Windows7 and Windows XP.

What I can to do? :(

My motherboard: Penryn 1600SLI-110dB.
Chipset: NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI SPP.
CPU: Inter Core 2 Duo E8400.


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 Post subject: Re: HDD dont't work over 1Terabyte
PostPosted: November 4th, 2011, 19:11 
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You've shown (by trying those 2 different disks, and getting the same result) that this is not a disk problem. Anything else is off-topic here, so I don't want to encourage more people to ask off-topic questions. However I'll point you to where the answer probably is (other people have experienced the same symptoms), so you can think about it and fix this yourself...

This isn't something that you'll fix with hardware - so what other part of your system is involved with all disk I/O when Windows is running? I suggest you look there :)


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 Post subject: Re: HDD dont't work over 1Terabyte
PostPosted: November 4th, 2011, 19:53 
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It appears that you may have a driver issue.

You could verify this by temporarily reconfiguring your SATA ports in your BIOS for legacy or IDE compatibility mode. This will enable Windows to use its own native IDE drivers.

Otherwise, try the latest (?) SATA drivers:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nf_650i_winxp32_8.43.html

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 Post subject: Re: HDD dont't work over 1Terabyte
PostPosted: November 4th, 2011, 20:37 
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Oh well, I was going for the "teach a man to fish" approach... :cry:

FYI this symptom of old NVIDIA drivers (limited to 1TB) is reported in several places (inc the Seagate website).


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 Post subject: Re: HDD dont't work over 1Terabyte
PostPosted: November 4th, 2011, 21:30 
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Vulcan wrote:
Oh well, I was going for the "teach a man to fish" approach... :cry:

Sorry.

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 Post subject: Re: HDD dont't work over 1Terabyte
PostPosted: November 4th, 2011, 22:45 
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No worries :)

I was just hoping to give the OP the satisfaction of solving their own problem, by giving a bit of diagnosis guidance - and at the same time, also avoid the process being so easy that this board becomes a place where others start expecting quick answers to more (off-topic) Windows driver questions in future. There are plenty of other places for those questions. :)

Anyway, hopefully the OP can now fix their issue. :D


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 Post subject: Re: HDD dont't work over 1Terabyte
PostPosted: November 7th, 2011, 11:29 
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Yeah those Nvidia storage drivers have always been problematic. I have a 780i board at home that gave me a bunch of problems for the first few weeks because of driver issues, I ended up locating a specific revision of the driver that seemed to work very good my my build, but it may vary depending on your components.


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