Windows Home Server v1.0 and 3TB drives not playing nice

[monitor35]

Heeeeeelp!

I'm pulling my hair out with this problem. I am running an Acer EasyStore H340, and I bought a WD30EZRX 3.0TB drive to go in it. It is not working. WHS v.1 sees the drive only as 746.52GB, no matter what I do. I have tried the following, with some incremental success.

Initially the WHS itself (over RDP) could not see the full capacity drive. WHS is fully patched up to SP2, and running power pack 3. WD support has little support to offer but suggested the following.

1) WDAlign - I have used the WD align utility and aligned the advanced format drive.
2) Acronis True Image WD Edition - I have used this, and the OS can now see the full 3TB drive...

BUT - WHS still does not. WHS still sees it as a 746.52GB drive, no matter what I seem to try. I have tried the WD jumper pins 7/8. I'm told that the jumper trick only works for XP - it seemed to have no effect on the underlying Server 2003 OS.

Has anyone else on the planet tried to add a 3TB drive to WHS? I can't be the only one, can I?
Please help!

 

[CKTurbo128]

WHSv1 is not compatible with GPT & 2.1 TB+ HDDs out of the box. There is a way to get them to work, but it does involve some lengthy steps. Check this guide here: http://forum.wegotserved.com/index....rives-work-as-storage-pool-drives-in-whs-pp3/

In the end, you may be better off going with WHS 2011 to save you a few headaches.

 

[dj4005]

I had a similar issue in a WHS-2011 machine that I built. A 2-Tb drive dropped in capacity down to 1TB after swapping cables. The reduced capacity showed up in both Explorer AND the BIOS (as well as following the drive to another PC)

The problem turned out to be bug in the BIOS of the Gigabyte motherboard I was using. Flashing the BIOS fixed the bug. A program called HDD Capacity Restore fixed the drive.

Hopefully, this helps.