So I had this computer 5 years now it came with a 500GB hard drive that has recently failed. About 2 years ago I got a sea-gate 3 terabyte drive I put all games and programs and back up all documents to once a month to Its disk D. I formatted 2 terabyte's of it. The mother board is a Asus M4N68T-m. The computer came preloaded with the windows installed on the 500B. I was sent a disk with windows 7 on it and a disk with the drivers for the mother board. My problem I am having is that the 3 terabyte hard drive is not showing up in the option on were to install windows to. I know the hard drive is good and it also shows up in BIOS. My question is how do I get the installer to see the drive? Do I need to install the drivers off the mother board disc and if so how do I do that? I have also tried different SATA ports as well.
Hard drive crashed fresh install of window need some help?
- Thread starter ihwood
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Problem is your Computer system is older and probably does not support using a 3TB HDD as a boot drive due to the EFI standards that were being used. Here is an article that explains it ( http://www.pcworld.com/article/235088/everything_you_need_to_know_about_3TB_hard_drives.html ) which states :
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So chances are with the system being 5 years old the BIOS on the MOBO is not EFI\UEFI -- so you may need to update the BIOS (if the MOBO manufacturer has issued updated Bioses) or get a smaller HDD (less than 2.2 TB so it can be used by your MOBO as a boot device) -- with HDD prices the easiest fix is probably to buy a 500GB or 1TB HDD ( can be found for $40 +/-) and install it to replace the dead drive and install windows on it rather than using the 3TB drive.
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So chances are with the system being 5 years old the BIOS on the MOBO is not EFI\UEFI -- so you may need to update the BIOS (if the MOBO manufacturer has issued updated Bioses) or get a smaller HDD (less than 2.2 TB so it can be used by your MOBO as a boot device) -- with HDD prices the easiest fix is probably to buy a 500GB or 1TB HDD ( can be found for $40 +/-) and install it to replace the dead drive and install windows on it rather than using the 3TB drive.
So chances are with the system being 5 years old the BIOS on the MOBO is not EFI\UEFI -- so you may need to update the BIOS (if the MOBO manufacturer has issued updated Bioses) or get a smaller HDD (less than 2.2 TB so it can be used by your MOBO as a boot device) -- with HDD prices the easiest fix is probably to buy a 500GB or 1TB HDD ( can be found for $40 +/-) and install it to replace the dead drive and install windows on it rather than using the 3TB drive.
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Thank you for the response since then I have updated the BIOS and the drive is still not showing up. Any other suggestions?
Could be the new BIOS still does not support Uefi (did the BIOS update notes mention updating to allow 3TB and larger HDDs ??) which is the newer standard that allows HDDs larger than 2.2TB to be used as a boot device -- If this is the case there is really nothing that can be done to make it possible to use that 3TB HDD as a boot drive - only solutions would be to get a new MOBO that does support UEFI so that you could use the 3TB drive as the boot device or get a second smaller hdd (smaller than 2.2TB) that can be used with your current MOBO. (probably the least costly and easiest solution) and then continue to use the 3TB HDD as a secondary drive like you had been doing.
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