Bought a 3 TB Toshiba HD but now I was told I can't use as a SYSTEM boot drive?

[Sam]

I needed an upgrade to my Seagate Baracudda 1 TB drive on my 3 year
old ASUS mobo (P6X58D-E). The mobo dces not have UEFI support. I
wanted to use it as my main Windows 7 x64 drive.

Little did I know that this was going to be an issue.

Is there a way of allowing Windows 7 to see the full 3TB drive and
have it run as the boot drive as well?

 

[Shadow]

I needed an upgrade to my Seagate Baracudda 1 TB drive on my 3 year
old ASUS mobo (P6X58D-E). The mobo dces not have UEFI support. I
wanted to use it as my main Windows 7 x64 drive.

Little did I know that this was going to be an issue.

Is there a way of allowing Windows 7 to see the full 3TB drive and
have it run as the boot drive as well?

Have you updated the Bios ?

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P6X58DE/#support

Description P6X58D-E BIOS 0803
Fixed raid hdd size issue

*Note: Update Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology Driver to v10.5.0.1026
to support full HDD capacity.(contained the driver)
File Size 252,97 MBytesupdate 2012.08.27

Not sure if it's your problem, but ...
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[Sam]

I needed an upgrade to my Seagate Baracudda 1 TB drive on my 3 year
old ASUS mobo (P6X58D-E). The mobo dces not have UEFI support. I
wanted to use it as my main Windows 7 x64 drive.

Little did I know that this was going to be an issue.

Is there a way of allowing Windows 7 to see the full 3TB drive and
have it run as the boot drive as well?

Have you updated the Bios ?

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P6X58DE/#support

Description P6X58D-E BIOS 0803
Fixed raid hdd size issue

*Note: Update Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology Driver to v10.5.0.1026
to support full HDD capacity.(contained the driver)
File Size 252,97 MBytesupdate 2012.08.27

Not sure if it's your problem, but ...
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Not sure either. I hate updating the Asus bios. They advertise which I
find to be more of a gimmick than anything that the bios settings can
be saved to USB. I tried that when I updated to the newer version a
few years ago.

The saved bios settings wouldn't/couldn't merge with the new updated
bios. There were so so many different new bios settings and I was not
able to get any literature on it. Asus tech support was useless.

With the new update, there was also no way I knew what would be the
correct settings. My new bios settings from factory default didn't
allow me to boot at all. Fortunately, I backed up the old bios and I
reverted to the previous orignal bios. I had the settings backed up
via the USB and that worked.

As I understand it, the s/w update won't help since the drive requies
UEFI and that is only available via bios settings not driver.

Although stable, I don't think I would buy Asus again. I even had to
manually enter my RAM settings into the bios since the auto detect
didnt detect the optimal (not overcloced) RAM settings. Asus
supposedly has a software bios update but that never worked. One had
to do it via DOS.

 

[VanguardLH]

I needed an upgrade to my Seagate Baracudda 1 TB drive on my 3 year
old ASUS mobo (P6X58D-E). The mobo dces not have UEFI support. I
wanted to use it as my main Windows 7 x64 drive.

Little did I know that this was going to be an issue.

Is there a way of allowing Windows 7 to see the full 3TB drive and
have it run as the boot drive as well?

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P6X58DE/#specifications

So, did you connect the new hard disk to one of the *blue* SATA ports?
Or did you use a grey SATA port?

Did you disconnect (power) from the other hard disks so only the new one
could be seen?

 

[Sam]

So, did you connect the new hard disk to one of the *blue* SATA ports?
Or did you use a grey SATA port?

Did you disconnect (power) from the other hard disks so only the new one
could be seen?

Actually, I don't have the drive yet. People in the Asus forums have
come across the same issue. It's also documented in the Windows 7
forum.

I am trying to cancel my order for the HD. My 1 TB SATA 6 drive is
connected to the blue port, that's where I would connect any new SATA
6 drive.

Additionally, the Marvel and Intel SATA 6controller is also flaky on
this mobo. I couldn't expect reliability and optimium speeds if I
bought a SSD drive. This mobo is clearly not meant for the future. I
should've bought a spec pre-fab PC from Dell had I known I wouldn't be
able to upgrade it.

 

[Shadow]

Have you updated the Bios ?

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P6X58DE/#support

Description P6X58D-E BIOS 0803
Fixed raid hdd size issue

*Note: Update Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology Driver to v10.5.0.1026
to support full HDD capacity.(contained the driver)
File Size 252,97 MBytesupdate 2012.08.27

Not sure if it's your problem, but ...
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Not sure either. I hate updating the Asus bios. They advertise which I
find to be more of a gimmick than anything that the bios settings can
be saved to USB. I tried that when I updated to the newer version a
few years ago.

The saved bios settings wouldn't/couldn't merge with the new updated
bios. There were so so many different new bios settings and I was not
able to get any literature on it. Asus tech support was useless.

You usually have to press a button (setup defaults F6 or F7)
and reboot the PC. There is no way the old settings will migrate,
worse, they will mess up the new bios settings.
Update bios ---> Choose setup defaults ---> reboot.
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