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

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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?
 
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?
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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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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?
Click to expand...

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 ...
[]'s
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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.
 
Sam said:
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?
Click to expand...

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?
 
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?
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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.
 
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 ...
[]'s
Click to expand...

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.
Click to expand...

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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