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28th August 2008, 08:27 PM
|  | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 8,001 posts. Location: Market Haemorrhoids, Middle England Reputation:  | | | Gigabyte boards and 1 Tb drives
Just a word of warning - I have have to swap out a perfectly good Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 board because despite the BIOS upgrades which are supposed to fix it, it will only see a 1 Tb samsung drive as 33 Mb. Feel a bit swindled. Gigabye support don't seem to want to help with this one. Surprise....
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14th September 2008, 07:28 PM
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How did you partition and format the drive?
Last edited by Daveskater; 15th September 2008 at 07:00 PM.
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14th September 2008, 10:38 PM
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Does the average home user really need 1Tb drives.?.
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14th September 2008, 10:55 PM
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No I cannot imagine why.
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15th September 2008, 09:57 AM
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This machine is for a photographer who takes all his digital images in RAW format and then converts them to jpeg - keeping the originals as well. He has filled 2 x 500 Gb drives in less than a year....capiche?
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15th September 2008, 01:01 PM
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OK got it but then again that is not the "average home user" either!
Last edited by Daveskater; 15th September 2008 at 07:00 PM.
Reason: RAW files? Phwoar files.
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15th September 2008, 01:12 PM
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Agreed - and was never supposed to be with demands like that. The point of this thread is to warn about potential problems with large capacity drives on some motherboards.
So far on this Gigabyte washed their hands of it and Samsung seem a bit bewildered!
I stopped the swap out as I am determined to get this fixed, and will use the 1Tb drive in my system if I have to.
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15th September 2008, 01:21 PM
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You dont let that bug you Albert 
Onward and upward
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15th September 2008, 01:26 PM
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Albert have you tried a third party partition program on it to see if you can partition it to two smaller partitions and maybe then XP can read it. Again I asked earlier if partitioned and formatted how did you do that? How does bios see it?
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15th September 2008, 05:31 PM
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Hope - the BIOS only 'sees' it as 33 Mb so cannot get at it as anything else. I am hoping I can talk to Samsung tomorrow as they have left a message asking me to call them about it.
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15th September 2008, 07:01 PM
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Good job my HDD is only 320GB then 
Cheers for letting us know mate.
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