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The ICH10R controller on my ASUS P6T SE board does support drives larger than 2 TB, however, the windows driver I can find doesn't. I am trying to use a 4 TB HDD, I am not trying to boot from that drive.

  • The 4 TB drive functions just fine if I boot a Linux distribution
  • Windows 7 disk management displays that the drive has a capacity below 2 TB
  • Intel Matrix Storage Console displays the drive capacity correctly
  • The driver version is 8.9.0.1023, which, to my knowledge, is the newest available

The controller is set to "AHCI", if i set it to "RAID" Windows doesn't boot (Windows boot screen shows up, computer resets). I assume I could re-install Windows in "RAID" mode and would manage to get a bootable system, however, I'd really like to continue using the Windows installation as it is. Also, I guess the problem would persist in "RAID" mode.

Again, I don't need to boot from the 4 TB drive, so any bios issues aren't really relevant. The bios is up to date though and also correctly recognises the drive size. Just the Windows controller driver doesn't. I just wonder if I missed anything and there is a newer driver that I can use, since apparently the Linux driver supports larger drives (and to my knowledge, Intel contributes these drivers to the kernel).

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  • Did you solve your problem ? I have exactly the same one.
    – Oliver
    Commented May 7, 2018 at 19:47
  • @Oliver TBH I don't remember. I assume not, otherwise I might have posted an answer here.
    – barbaz
    Commented May 9, 2018 at 8:03

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You need to convert the partition table type from MBR to GPT so Windows will see the full capacity.

  1. Open command prompt in the Start menu.
  2. Type diskpart in the command prompt and press enter.
  3. Type list disk and press enter.
  4. Type select disk # ( #-the disk you want to convert) and press enter.
  5. Type detail disk and press enter. It will give you a list of all the volumes on the selected disk. If you have no volumes listed, then you can go to step 9.
  6. Type select volume # and press enter.
  7. Type delete volume and press enter.
  8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 for each volume listed in step 5 until you have deleted all volumes.
  9. Type select disk # and press enter.
  10. Type convert gpt and press enter
  11. Type exit and press enter

Source for steps and more info

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  • The disk has no partition scheme, neither MBR nor GPT. The entire device size is reported to be below 2 TB. I can create a GPT partition table with the management console, however, that does not change the reported device size.
    – barbaz
    Commented Apr 13, 2014 at 17:40

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