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Using a 3TB drive
I bought a 3TB drive. It is a Seagate Backup Plus.
I have two DELL 6400's and one DELL 6440. One 6400 and the 6440 have Windows 7. Both are up to date as I have seen lots of updates happening. Both have 4Gig of memory. Both are 64 bit computers with 64 bit Windows 7.
On the 6400 I don't see the drive (but I do see it in "Safely Remove Hardware"). I have tried booting with the drive connected and with it disconnected then plugged in after the boot. And I do see it in Disk Manager.
On the 6440 Windows hangs before it even gets going. The hang is just a black screen. I talked to a friend at DELL who heads up the server BIOS department and he believes it is past the BIOS POST and starting into the Windows boot sequence (uses int 13). On this computer, though, I can boot without the drive connected then plug in the drive and I can access it.
My guess is that the legacy BIOS can't handle over 2TB and hence Windows (using int 13) is hanging while trying to read the device.
Note that it works fine on Windows 8 with a DELL 6400.
So my question is to do with W7 support of GT 2TB. If the solution is to load 3TB drivers then were do I get those?
Does anyone know if there is a solution to this?
Eddy