Did ga 965p-ds3 v3.3 can Identify Western Digital Caviar Green 2000GB WD20EARS

[fanydoudy]

Hello I have a motherboard type ga 965p-ds3 .Does it support this internal drive
"Western Digital Caviar Green 2000GB WD20EARS"?
I upgraded to the newest bios f14 &Yet it still identified in the bios & in the Disk Management like 1000giga
Sincerely
doudy

 

[Hawkeye22]

This is a know problem with older gigabyte boards producing a host protected area on the hard drive.

Here is an older post refering to it.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/255691-32-bought-drive-bios-detect#t1829330

 

[fanydoudy]

so if i will run HDD Capacity Restore Tool it will be ok?

 

[Hawkeye22]

I've never run into this problem, but from what I've read, yes, that should fix it and as listed in the other post...

BTW, to restore your partitions after repairing your drive, you could use TestDisk or Partition Find and Mount (freeware):

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
http://findandmount.com/

but, I'm not sure if that will be necessary. It would depend on if you have unallocated space showing at the end of your drive.