4TB WD Green Format

Drifta on 01/11/2014 - 13:21

Hi Guys, So I splurged a few weeks ago during the Ebay deals and Bought a WD 4TB Green HDD only to find that My Older Computer can't format the Drive, So essentially I only have 1.7TB of usable Space (What a waste)

Did a lot of googling and found out that you need a newer motherboard capable of UEFI to be able to format such a drive.

Does anyone know of anything else I can do to get the drive to be formatted to full capacity? I just want to use it to store Backups and Movies etc

Would EBKing (I think) accept the HDD back for this reason?

Computing Computer Component Hard Drive Western Digital

Comments

  • matabuntu on 01/11/2014 - 13:52

    I think to format 4tb drive you don't need uefi capable motherboard. It is to boot from 4tb drive that needs a uefi capable motherboard. You can still have it as data disk if your operating system supports reading a GPT disk, even if your boot disk (where windows is installed) is still using the old MBR format. source1 source2

  • Drifta on 01/11/2014 - 17:51
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    Thanks Heaps matabuntu! After your comment I looked into it further and looked at source1 which clarified what you summarised and that led me to do more research. Ended up gambling by installing a intel rapid storage driver which seems to have detected the full capacity of the drive. I converted it to GPT before but couldn't see the other half which led me to think my storage driver was outdated. I even updated the BIOS (which was already up to date apparently) trying to get the HDD recognised. Looked at the driver of the HDD and it was a 2007 one. Installing the new intel controller resulted in a new driver automatically being installed for the drive.

    To summarise, It works!

    Thanks again :)

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