4TB SSHD has only 2TBs acessible

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So i recently built a new PC. I bought a 500GB SSD as my main bootable drive and i installed a 4TB SSHD as a secondary internal storage drive. The 4TB SSHD is from my OLD build and has two partitions, one with windows installed (from old build) and and the other with 7 years worth of personal info, work files, pics, you name it, it has it all. My old build has an ASRock Z77 Xtreme 4 MB that had a driver for Hard Drives of more then 2TB so i never formatted the SSHD, just used the driver and never ever worried about anything, it just worked. NOW with my new build i have a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 and like i said before, i have the 4TB installed as a secondary storage drive. The problem is that the 2TB with all my personal info from years and years ago is inaccessible, it looks like this in disk manager: http://imgur.com/HMCwTzX .
My question is there a way that i can get it to work again without formatting it because i can NOT lose all that info!! I'm getting very desperate and also worried that unless i find a Build that supports 4TB HDs, i am most royally screwed.
 
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it looks as if it has been set as a MBR disk and not a GPT Disk that it should be.

What version of windows did you have before, was it the OS Partition a Full 2TB as show, or was it smaller bigger?

You could try this

http://www.disk-partition.com/gpt-mbr/convert-mbr-to-gpt-without-data-loss.html

I have never converted a MBR to GPT before in this manner. It is always a fresh disk that i deal with, the thing is once a drive is converted to GPT it shouldn't convert back even if you reinstall windows, move it to another drive, etc, so need more info.

It has NOTHING to do with your motherboard not supporting drives bigger than 2TB. That isn't an issue.

Also do you have a 32 or 64 bit OS installed?
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it looks as if it has been set as a MBR disk and not a GPT Disk that it should be.

What version of windows did you have before, was it the OS Partition a Full 2TB as show, or was it smaller bigger?

You could try this

http://www.disk-partition.com/gpt-mbr/convert-mbr-to-gpt-without-data-loss.html

I have never converted a MBR to GPT before in this manner. It is always a fresh disk that i deal with, the thing is once a drive is converted to GPT it shouldn't convert back even if you reinstall windows, move it to another drive, etc, so need more info.

It has NOTHING to do with your motherboard not supporting drives bigger than 2TB. That isn't an issue.

Also do you have a 32 or 64 bit OS installed?
 
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