MS-7380 HDD size limit?

I have a MS-7380 (P7N SLI Platinum Ver 1.0) and a few months ago bought 2 Seagate Barracuda 2TB SATA hard drives.  One is in an external USB enclosure, the other I have attached to SATA4 on the main board.  I have been gradually filling up the internal drive, and on trying to copy an 8GB file the copy stopped and the drive appeared to freeze and a reboot was required.  I suspected a faulty drive so booted off Ultimate Boot CD and ran Seatools diagnostics whic passed the drive in all tests.  I backed it up to the external (which I could add the extra files to) and deleted the partition.  On trying to format the remade partition (full size) the format stopped at 54% (1TB of formatted space).  I put the drive in the external USB enclosure and attached it to my MSI MS-163A Notebook.  I then partitioned the drive again and successfully performed a full format.  Both desktop and notebook are running Win7 Pro, 64-bit on the desktop and 32-bit on the notebook.
This leads me to suspect that my motherboard has a limit on the size of a disk partition that it can write to.  Can anyone confirm this for me please?

Thanks for the suggestion.  I was considering that too.  When I first got it I formatted it in my external USB enclosure.  Windows sees it as a 2TB drive and reported free space etc correctly, but when writing to the drive as in my OP it got to 54% capacity then failed.  I thought it was a faulty drive but it seems it isn't.  As my motherboard must be about 4 years old now I'm considering upgrading, but my common sense says that if it's still working and performance is good then is it worth spending the money?

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