Large HDD Support

[Booshman97]

I have just moved from an MSI Z77 gd45 motherboard to an MSI X99 SLI Plus. About a year ago I bought a 3TB HDD for my system. Installing it only increased my boot times significantly and the drive did not show up in Windows or the BIOS. I updated the BIOS but nothing changed. I read that this size of drive wasn't really supported.

 

My question is will larger (2TB+) HDDs be supported on X99 or should I just stick with 2TB and under?

 

(I have also assumed that the drive wasn't DOA but it seemed like this was a common problem!)

[TheNeutraliser]

it will be supported im 95% sure 

[Guest]

Convert the drive to GPT, report back.

[2FA]

The issue was that you were trying to format it as NTFS which only supports up to 2TB, you have to format it as GPT.

[TheRandomness]

It should be fine, was your boot time slower because you moved your OS from an SSD?

[hansitv]

Convert the drive from MBR to GPT. This can be done in the Disk-tool Windows comes with. Then you should be good to go. But remember, GPT Drives are not supported at very old computers.

[Booshman97]

The issue was that you were trying to format it as NTFS which only supports up to 2TB, you have to format it as GPT.

I did do this on the z77 board and it still didn't work. From looking things up it did seem as though the board did just not support it. I will do this for x99 though!

[Captain_WD]

I have just moved from an MSI Z77 gd45 motherboard to an MSI X99 SLI Plus. About a year ago I bought a 3TB HDD for my system. Installing it only increased my boot times significantly and the drive did not show up in Windows or the BIOS. I updated the BIOS but nothing changed. I read that this size of drive wasn't really supported.

 

My question is will larger (2TB+) HDDs be supported on X99 or should I just stick with 2TB and under?

 

(I have also assumed that the drive wasn't DOA but it seemed like this was a common problem!)

 

Hey there Booshman97,

 

All motherboards that run UEFI BIOS should work perfectly fine with larger than 2TB storage drives. These drives should be configured in GPT mode in order to be recognized properly.

I would also check the cables and ports on both the drives and the PSU and motherboard if they are plugged in all the way. Do check the drives one by one on all SATA ports. You can also check them on another working system and see if they get recognized.

Post back with some results!

 

Captain_WD.