I’ve also tried de-initializing it with diskpart and then re-initializing as GPT. One thing I noticed doing that is that Windows reported the space a little differently, with GPT being about 1 MB less than MBR. I’ve tried going back and forth between MBR and GPT. Since one of the drives works fine, I also tried disconnecting that one and leaving the other hooked up. So far, I’ve tried switching the SATA channel it was on (from 4-5 to 0-1). Here’s an update of where things are at present:
Any ideas as to what the cause of this might be and what I could do to fix it? I remember having the problem with the first one where, once Windows was installed on it, it showed a 745GB unallocated chunk which I couldn’t use, but for this 2nd drive it’s only showing the 1 single block. I tried making a partition, thinking it might then see the rest after doing that, but it didn’t change anything. Tonight I installed the 2nd 3TB drive only to discover that, even after initializing it as GPT in Disk Management, it appears to recognize it only as a 2TB (1862.91GB). After I did that, I was able to convert the 3TB from MBR to GPT and I was able to make 2 partitions to use up all the drive. Of course, at the time I didn’t know that I couldn’t boot off of this drive and use the full 3TB with my BIOS so I had to move the boot volume to a 500GB drive I still had installed. I ended up doing a fresh install of WIndows 7, so I decided to work with just 1 of the drives at first. I’ve installed one of them but I’m having an issue with the second. I recently purchased 2 WD30EZRX 3TB drives.
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