with a 2 drive formatting issues to WD cannot format passed 1 TB (931 gb)

I have a problem of formatting with my new 2 Terabyte Western Digital Drive using Windows tools (computer management: storage: disk management)

I am running Vista Ultimate 32 bit SP2 all patches current
ASUS P5NSLI MB (award bios) bios is more recent (1801) of the site of ASUS
Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EADS is 2 TB drive

I can't format beyond the point of 1 TB if I do formatting in windows full it stops at 54% and crashes if I do a formatting quick I get an IO error. I've already replaced the drive once through new eggs. the replacement drive is having the exact same issues. full format stops at 54% or quick format gives me a failure.

If I partiion drive (usually get mistakes of e/s through the windows Disk Manager) I can create a partion of 1 TB and sucessfully do a quick format. Player appears to sucessfully read and files right. I made several transfers of multi GB files to this partion sucessfully. However the rest of 1 TB is not able to be formatted or partitioned through the windows. I get an IO error every time. I also tried to expand the disk through windows unsucessfully, it will not alow me or to increase the 1 TB storage. (931 GB).

try a different aproach I downloaded the WD diagnostic tools executed through vista and they always give me an error "cable" in vista. I replaced the cables 2 x just to dismiss it as a problem. (I ran other readers on this port sata very well with the same cables).

I also used what seems to be successfully using gparted (linux) to format the drive to NTFS. GParted reported a success on the format, but look in windows it usually shows as a drive of 1 MB for some reason any. tweak in windows, that I managed to access a partition of 1 TB. The part funny though when I express this partition to its maximum, this is where things get weird. The reader in vista Disk Manager displays as a 1963,1 GB disk but look through 'My computer' its only shows a 931 GB drive empty.

I'm at my wits end trying to figure this. I made many calls to western digital and Asus to see if it is a bios issue or a conversation about drive failure nearly goes like this. Western Digital blamed the bios, Asus gripe with vista.

Can someone help me?

See this discussion on the gaming PC from HP, the final post on page 2 forum:

http://www.thenextbench.com/HPG/board/message?board.ID=desktops&thread.ID=7453&view=by_date_ascending&page=2

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I have just solved this problem for my HP Blackbird PC and am now able to easily partition and format a new Seagate 2 TB internal hard drive of 32-bit Vista running on this PC.

The solution was to update my drivers Nvidia 680i chipset, available in a package update of Nvidia, not through normal driver of Microsoft and pages of OS update as much as I know.  See the above URL for more details.

I had already tried using a stand-alone and formatting utility drive partition and even if I could create and do a quick format of the drive 2 TB, it would still fail software database to hard drive diagnostics, falsely showing hard drive looking for errors.  Also, when I ran the Windows chkdsk/f/r half of the hard drive has been marked as containing bad sectors, which later proved to be false.  After the update of the driver, no material errors are produced and no large number of defective sectors found.

It's a problem of confusion since it seems due to disk problems hard or maybe a Vista problem.  Actually, I only update my SATA controller driver, which is Nvidia nForce 680i driver in my case.  NVIDIA has a web page with a script that will scan your PC and tell you what you need to update, for the GPU and their nForce chipset SATA hard drive controller drivers.

Seagate also has a page to discuss the need to update the nForce drivers, which can be true for drivers of other manufacturers.

http://Seagate.custkb.com/Seagate/CRM/selfservice/search.jsp?docid=206391&NewLang=en&HiLite=

I hope this information is useful.

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