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Formatted in NTFS for sure and certain.Even if done in FAT32 its 32mb not GB anyway.

The board is a few years old now,GA M55plus which can see another 600G drive I have installed along with a 1TB...

Just ran linux directly from a disk.Have tried setting channels to ide mode with no luck also.

Did that earlier no change afterwards.



This drive is only a storage drive.Have the OS W7 on an ssd.

showing mb

I don't see how the OS would do this either.What is confusing is that a Linux disk which presumably boots from the very same bios forces the bios to correctly id the drive though.
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Yes I can exchange it but there is a cost involved should the drive be working ok which I suspect it is as in ubuntu its all good.

Checking the bios after restarting from ubuntu the bios shows the...

I have formatted the drive 3 times now as NTFS in windows after rebooting from ubuntu which then shows the drive correctly.After shutting the PC down and restarting the drive shows 32mb as RAW.When I...

No joy,cleared cmos redid above steps.This is so frustrating!

Jumpered pins 5+6 reset the drive using ubuntu once again,booted back into windows then formatted as NTFS.On reboot win saw the drive as 1tb.Shutdown then restarted and windows is showing it as 32mb...

I was under the impression that sata drives needed no jumpers,but then again I'm pc illiterate.

If jumpering is necessary which setting do I use?

Bios is current F15 if that helps.

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Installed a 1tb WD caviar black the other day.
Upon reboot bios and w7 reported the drive to be only 32mb.

Scoured the net and tried a heap of different recovery progs all with no luck.

Ended...