That's not correct. You do not need UEFI to use a 4TB drive. However, it's possible your BIOS does not support a drive that large. The external enclosure option was a good choice. Gives you some flexibility.
With the new drive in the system, boot to the Ctrl-i menu and tell me what size drive is reported there. Also, what is the SATA controller mode in the BIOS?
Thanks for your reply Osprey4. After checking many forums, I came to the conclusion that my old chipset does not have UEFI which is mandatory to use a 2.2 Tb hdd drive, even if your OS supports it. My BIOS is outdated and can't be updated any more.
I used an old USB HDD enclosure I had from ACOMDATA, plugged it on a USB port and it worked. Even if it's not the best solution, since I lost a lot of time trying to figure what was going on, I will keep this solution until I upgrade my desktop in a few years.
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That's not correct. You do not need UEFI to use a 4TB drive. However, it's possible your BIOS does not support a drive that large. The external enclosure option was a good choice. Gives you some flexibility.
Good luck!
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May 23rd, 2014 05:00
Hi Rlortie,
With the new drive in the system, boot to the Ctrl-i menu and tell me what size drive is reported there. Also, what is the SATA controller mode in the BIOS?
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May 23rd, 2014 08:00
Thanks for your reply Osprey4. After checking many forums, I came to the conclusion that my old chipset does not have UEFI which is mandatory to use a 2.2 Tb hdd drive, even if your OS supports it. My BIOS is outdated and can't be updated any more.
I used an old USB HDD enclosure I had from ACOMDATA, plugged it on a USB port and it worked. Even if it's not the best solution, since I lost a lot of time trying to figure what was going on, I will keep this solution until I upgrade my desktop in a few years.
Thanks again !