Hi I just installed a new Toshiba PH3300U 3TB internal HD to my Gigabyte UEFI Z87N-WIFI Mobo. When I go to format it in the windows disk utility it will only Format 2TB of the disk. I googled this. Win 7 + and UEFI Bios with 8 series SATA drivers should recognize this as a 3TB disk. Anything I am doing wrong or does my mobo for some reason just doesn't support 3 TB? I updated the Bios to F5 (lastest) still no go. Any help will be great. Thanks!
Delete all partitions on that HDD, then switch it into GPT. That's the only way to get capacities beyond 2TiB since that's the limit of the MBR scheme.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I could add that after switching to GPT partitioning scheme you will be able to create more partitions.