Question for the techies:

[nicolas10]

I've just installed 2 4TB drives on my computer, and bios only shows 1,7 TB per drive. What the fuck?

I've just updated to the latest bios just in case but that doesn't change anything.

Ideas?

Nic

[Reservoir_Dog]

The Illuminati formatted your drives.

[Tolwyn]

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id- ... d-2tb.html

[nicolas10]

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id- ... d-2tb.html

The issue is different, windows recognizes only 1,7 To, there's no "unallocated" partition there, I already went check. First thing I did actually. Then I realized that in the drives list at bios boot, the bios also recognizes only 1,7 To.

[Tolwyn]

Your MB probably can't support it, then. You need to have a UEFI BIOS in order to use drives larger than 2TB as an O/S drive.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/what-uefi

[nicolas10]

It's not an OS drive, the OS drive is a Raid 0 300 gb array of 10000 RPM velociraptors.

Nic

[Tolwyn]

But if your BIOS can't recognize it for the size it is/should be?

The only thing I can say is use a 3rd-party partitioning/formatting tool.

[Pudfark]

Listen carefully to Tolwyn, Nic.
What he says and or, if possible, update your bios....and a link to all the dirty pictures on all that HDD space.

[nicolas10]

Well pud, as I said I've already just downloaded the latest bios for my MB, it didn't change anything.

My MB isn't new at all but I don't see why I couldn't run 4 T disks, especially since my older 2 T disk didn't appear as a 1,7 T disk.

Nic

[Tolwyn]

that is my point.

YOUR computer's MB's CMOS/BIOS will never support the drive.