WD Black 4TB SATA 3 HDD in an XPS 9000 ?

Hi Sunrise305,

I assume you are adding the 4TB drive as a data drive, and not for your operating system. All you need to do to see the entire capacity is to update the Intel Rapid Storage Technology utility.

Your computer is SATA 2 (3.0 gb/s), but with a 4TB mechanical drive will run significantly slower than the interface allows.

All you need to do to see the entire capacity is to update the Intel Rapid Storage Technology utility.

You will also need to convert the disk to GPT (instead of MBR).

Thanks very much Osprey.  I just tried to update the Intel RST and I received an error message:  This platform is not supported.  The disk is currently set to GPT.  it is not my boot disk.

Do you have the Intel RST installed now? There may be an older version called Matrix Storage Manager installed.

You might need an SATA controller card to support a drive that large.

I am running Windows 7 Home Premium with SP1 64 bit.

I have installed a Western Digital Black HDD 4 TB in my XPS 9000.  I have the following questions: Is my computer SATA 3?  Or do I need to use the jumpers on the back of the drive to slow it to 1.5 Gb/s? Is there any way I can get my system to access the entire drive?  Currently it only shows 1.63 TB.

That's weird, because even my old Dimension 3100 will fully recognize a 4tb drive (with Windows 7/8/8.1).

Which operating system is this?

How is this drive connected? SATA or eSATA?

SATA.  It's an internal drive.  Seems to work fine.  I'm just missing 60% of its capacity.  

Thank you for your heip!

Weird, because my 3tb Hitachi is fully recognized by my old OptiPlex 320. (It is connected via eSATA.) This has an AMD chipset, mind you.

What setting is the port using in the BIOS? Regular ATA or something else?