3TB drive available in Win7 Disk Admin; only 801GB recognized by BIOS

Hello, I have used seagate disc wizard to format the drive as GPT, and 1 partition of size 3TB. The OS recognizes the drive as such. however, once I try to write more than 800 GB (which is what the bios recognizes), the system stop responding and I have to hard power off. Is there any fix for this, or can my desktop not support this? I have already returned one drive to Seagate, but I no longer believe it was a drive issue. I have an HP Pavilion p6310f, running bios 5.16. The SATA firmware upgrade on the HP suport site appears to only for Western Digital drives, so I have not applied that fix. Thank you. Bert Cross

Hi, Sorry about giving you a link to the XP driver site. Try this site for a later W7 nforce SATA driver. A driver update is not going to change what the bios is indicating. That is why you have to use the drive as a non-boot drive. What disk format are you using? You need to use NTFS. If the updated driver doesn't solve the issue then you may end up having to use the "extended capacity" manager that comes along with the Seagate disk wizard. Did you install the Acronis driver?

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