3 TB drives hard 2 TB allocated and .73TB awarded and no usable Partitions.

New Red WD (WD30EFRX) 3 TB hard disk will partition only to: 2 TB allocated and .73TB not attributed and not usable. Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bits when you perform a clean Windows 7 install on a hard drive blank.

How can I get the drive to be formatted for the full capacity of 3 TB to use under Windows 7 in a large primary partition?

Have an update AsRock Z68 Extreme4, Intel I-7 3.40 Ghz CPU, motherboard with 3 TB + unlocker and latest updates of BIOS update, but I should not even updates to MB for a 3 TB drive.

Computer will see a complete 3 TB hard a Windows 8 computer I borrowed to check it out.

Computer is able to see a 3 TB hard drive, but Windows 7 will be it partitions like that... WHY?

Hello Davespc01,

In modern devices, there is a kind of 'barrier, limit' to the more than 2 TB HDD storage.

Your WD 3 TB Red must be initialized using the table to partition GUID (GPT). This system supports the full storage capacity. That I can see, your motherboard supports the UEFI BIOS (which is a necessity). If it didn't, you wouldn't be able to initialize your disk to GPT and format the entire 3 TB of disk capacity.

Here is a link that could really help you. There are definitions and explanation of your problem, then the "overall requirements for a no bootable volume of data" and 'Global requirements for a bootable system volume', you should read if you want that your HARD drive is bootable or not.

You can find how to initialize your disc under the title 'How to initialize a disk of data with the help of TPG'. Then you can freely to partition and format your Red WD and he should have distributed the entire capacity of 3 TB.

Windows supports hard drives larger than 2 TB:

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/2581408/en-us

I hope I helped!

Good luck!

CK_WD

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