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Windows 7 & GPUID hard drive issue
Hello to all:
I wonder if anyone else has encountered this issue I have? Is it considered possible for the op/sys to corrupt the fat tables of a large 3 TB GPUID drive when the information located in that drive exceeds 2TB? I have multiple drives that are in installed into hot swappable cartridges (Vantec EZswap 2), I have 5 of these cartridges, I have but one GPUID drive that is 3TB, the rest are 2TB and formatted as MBR, I've been using the 2TB's for more than 5 years no with no issues at all, since the install of the latest 3TB I've seen the op/sys wipe out the FAT tables of the drive twice making ALL the info on the disc inaccessible.
Since this in an Intel processor Win7 requires the install of Intel's Rapid Storage program to *see* the drive as a GPUID drive in it's entirety, without this the bios & system will not see the full capacity of the drive. I can safely load up to & just under 2TB onto the drive with no worries (swap the drive without issue), but as soon as I go to 2.2TB the drive will be corrupted. What usually happens is (seeing as I am constantly swapping drives) the drive will be pulled out, another one goes in for my use, when I am finished what I am doing on THAT particular drive I'll come back to the 3TB drive, install it, boot it up and the bios sees the drive, but when the drive displays in *My Computer* the name I applied to the drive is gone, all the information is gone and what I see is this drive needs to be formatted.
I've used chkdsk /f to try to retrieve what WAS on the drive to avail, it's all gone.
As I said this has happened twice, the drive is NOT corrupted, there are no lost sectors, nothing to blame on the drive. I'm at a loss as to what's happening here, but to lose 4TB of material that had to be replaced twice is a real heartache, if anyone can shed some light on this I'd be most grateful to them,
thx very much