Loaded Win 7 64 pro on it then upgraded to win 8 64 bit pro.
MB have UEFI BIOS however I am still unable to use entire 3TB Disk space.
From win. Disk management I can see 768GB "Unallocated" space.
Any Idea how to use this?
Also on board video on this MB is giving max. of 1440 x 900 resolution even with 16GB of RAM that system can use. ! ! ! This is very low compare with my 10 Years old desktop that I am replacing.
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skh12
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posted: Feb. 6, 2013 @ 4:36a
specks? really
minidrag
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posted: Feb. 6, 2013 @ 6:00a
MSI site says 1 gig shared video RAM. The resolution is what it is, you can't do anything about that. If you need more / different you'll need to get an add on card.
Is the drive using GPT?
"Right-click My Computer -> Manage -> Storage -> Disk Management -> find disk that you want to convert -> delete all partitions and volumes (you will lose all data on the drive) -> right click on the disk itself (to the left of where the partitions are) -> Convert to GPT Disk "
spotrun
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posted: Feb. 6, 2013 @ 9:17a
skh12 said: specks? really
Corrected. Thanks for pointing it out....
Guess I was too tired to read what I was typing.
spotrun
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posted: Feb. 6, 2013 @ 9:23a
minidrag said: MSI site says 1 gig shared video RAM. The resolution is what it is, you can't do anything about that. If you need more / different you'll need to get an add on card.
Is the drive using GPT?
"Right-click My Computer -> Manage -> Storage -> Disk Management -> find disk that you want to convert -> delete all partitions and volumes (you will lose all data on the drive) -> right click on the disk itself (to the left of where the partitions are) -> Convert to GPT Disk "
Thanks for your response. I will try to do this tonight. However what I can remember after going in disk management is this.
I see disk 0 as 2.1 TB and disk 1 as 768 GB (Unallocated). This is the volume on same disk. I have Win 8 on this disk. How can OS will let me delete the disk from within windows?
I tried earlier with Gigabyte motherboard and it seems they have a utility that you can use to format "unallocated" space from within the windows. However that mb had several other issues so I returned it and went with this MSI one.
minidrag
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posted: Feb. 6, 2013 @ 7:54p
Wait a second... are you saying that you are already using 2TB of the drive? I thought from your OP that you only saw the drive as a blank 768gig.
If you are already using 2TB of it... disk management is showing it as two different drives? Are either GPT? Can you simply right click on the 768gig and partition / format it?
No, you can't wipe it and make it GPT if you have the OS installed on it. Those steps were if, as I had thought, this was a secondary drive in your machine.
spotrun
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posted: Feb. 7, 2013 @ 12:39p
minidrag said: Wait a second... are you saying that you are already using 2TB of the drive? I thought from your OP that you only saw the drive as a blank 768gig.
If you are already using 2TB of it... disk management is showing it as two different drives? Are either GPT? Can you simply right click on the 768gig and partition / format it?
No, you can't wipe it and make it GPT if you have the OS installed on it. Those steps were if, as I had thought, this was a secondary drive in your machine. Yes I have OS on this internal HDD. In disk management I can see 2.1 TB disk 0 (C) and 764 GB as "Unallocated". Tried third party disk management like easeus partition manager. However the "Unallocated" disk space could not be used.
Right clicking this space in device manager, I can not select format or any other option. These are greyed out.
comprx
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posted: Feb. 7, 2013 @ 5:00p
Can you right click on drive C in disk management and choose to extend it?
minidrag
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posted: Feb. 7, 2013 @ 7:23p
I don't think you'll be able to use anything past the 2TB line unless the drive is GPT. And there's no way that I know of to make it GPT without wiping it. You could make a drive image, wipe it and make it GPT then restore the image I suppose.
spotrun
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posted: Feb. 16, 2013 @ 3:05p
minidrag said: I don't think you'll be able to use anything past the 2TB line unless the drive is GPT. And there's no way that I know of to make it GPT without wiping it. You could make a drive image, wipe it and make it GPT then restore the image I suppose.
Thanks for your response however, I installed sea-gate utility which allowed me to extend the unallocated space. I now have 765 GB as another drive. and using that to do a back up.
minidrag
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posted: Feb. 16, 2013 @ 6:28p
Ah, as a second drive? I thought you hadn't wanted to do that, that you wanted it all as one drive. As long as it's working for you, that's all that matters.
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