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tazzman67

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Hello,
my computer is not seeing all 3tb of my new hdd, it only sees 349gb of my new drive and i just bought a model st3000dm001 segate 3tb drive and it keeps coming up as a 349gb drive and i have tried everything including updating my mobo drivers. I have an asus socket am2/am2+/am3 m3nht deluxe motherboard with AMD 3ghz cpu and 8gb ddr ram windows 7 ultimate 64bit 2 pci express video cards slie'd and 4 different drives a 2tb drive a 2.5 tb drive a 1 tb drive and this new 3tb drive only it keeps coming back as a 249 gb drive. there are no jumpers on the 3tb drive only a power connection and a sata connection. please help as i need my 3tb hdd to work properly. thks
 

tazzman67

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Feb 24, 2012
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Hello,
my computer is not seeing all 3tb of my new hdd, it only sees 349gb of my new drive and i just bought a model st3000dm001 segate 3tb drive and it keeps coming up as a 349gb drive and i have tried everything including updating my mobo drivers. I have an asus socket am2/am2+/am3 m3nht deluxe motherboard with AMD 3ghz cpu and 8gb ddr ram windows 7 ultimate 64bit 2 pci express video cards slie'd and 4 different drives a 2tb drive a 2.5 tb drive a 1 tb drive and this new 3tb drive only it keeps coming back as a 249 gb drive. there are no jumpers on the 3tb drive only a power connection and a sata connection. please help as i need my 3tb hdd to work properly. thks
 

tazzman67

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Feb 24, 2012
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Hello,
my computer is not seeing all 3tb of my new hdd, it only sees 349gb of my new drive and i just bought a model st3000dm001 segate 3tb drive and it keeps coming up as a 349gb drive and i have tried everything including updating my mobo drivers. I have an asus socket am2/am2+/am3 m3nht deluxe motherboard with AMD 3ghz cpu and 8gb ddr ram windows 7 ultimate 64bit 2 pci express video cards slie'd and 4 different drives a 2tb drive a 2.5 tb drive a 1 tb drive and this new 3tb drive only it keeps coming back as a 249 gb drive. there are no jumpers on the 3tb drive only a power connection and a sata connection. please help as i need my 3tb hdd to work properly. thks
 

maxinexus

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I think I saw that ASUS has a software that enables the 3TB hrives to be visible...let me check...there it is try to download Disk Unlocker V2.0.8 from asus website under utilities.

That should work