Can you please help me to make the 3TB hardrive work :(!

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Can you please help me to make the 3TB hardrive work :(! my motherboard is this one:
https://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02014355&tmp_track_link=ot_faqs/top_issues/en_us/c02014355/loc:2&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=4211777#N88 and this is the hardrive i purchased: http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Green-Desktop/dp/B004RORMF6/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1364452662&sr=1-1&keywords=3tb+wd

Here is some information may help you to help me:

- 3TB harddrive connected to my motherboard using data and power SATA cables
- Im currently using Windows 7 Home Basic 64 Bit
- Right now i have 2 hardrives, 1 for 640GB and the scond one is for 1 TB


Can you help me please to make it work? thanks and god bless you!
 
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Most likely your motherboard probably does not support high capacity (greater than 2TB) drives.

If you can, go into your motherboard's BIOS and see if there are any settings for boot priority.
If so your drive with your O/S on it (the 640GB drive?) should be your 1st boot device. If there are any settings for 2nd & 3rd boot devices then set them to "None" or "Disabled".

If you don't have boot priority settings in BIOS I don't know what else to suggest.
 
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Hello salcemx: i recently (5 months) bought a 3TB Htachi Touro. Took it home, plugged it in and started using it, transferred 1.7 TB of data(yea). Came home one night after about 3 weeks later and it was gone from my original system (vista)(or invisible), as was my data, about 5 yrs. accumulation. That was 4mon. ago. Just got it back because I plugged the comm. cable into the proper port on the external drive!
the whole problem originated( I can only guess !) when the OEM of the original system, Dell, 'updated' the BIOS on my system, after which the
the bios would not recognize ANY drives on the system, but it STILL booted, only now I have to hit F1 every time I reboot!
Anyway.......... what I'm trying to say is that a 3TB drive may, I say may, have to be formatted using a different formatting system to be able to read over 2.2 TB. (old - MBR, new GPT., but watch out for in in your ear. Try this article.....

http://www.pcworld.com/article/235088/everything_you_need_to_know_about_3TB_hard_drives.html
 
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ssss so i will not be able to use my 3TB hardrive lols, well i will think in moving to a new motherboard, thank you very much anyway for all your help!
 
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