Maximum hard drive size for HP Pavilion Elite e2980t? I put in a 3TB, but it shows up as 800GB

I installed a 3TB drive, but it shows up in the bios as 800GB. What is the maximum supported size?
I suspect that the HP Pavilion Elite e2980t cannot accept more than an 800 GB drive. This is consistent with the product selection choices that are available to purchasers.
Can anyone confirm?
Are there a set of drivers I can install that would work around this limitation?

Hi:
If you are using the drive as a boot drive, your PC probably does not have a UEFI BIOS, so it can't recognize all 3 TB.
If you are using it as a data drive, go into the Windows disk management tool, format the drive GPT, and windows should be able to see and use all 3 TB.
Please see this white paper regarding UEFI & GPT.
While this applies to business desktops it is also relevant to consumer desktops as well.
http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.BINARYPORTLET/public/kb/docDisplay/resource.proc...

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