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Problem with Acronis Extended Capacity on 3 TB drive

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Hi! I have a 3 TB Harddisk (WDC WD30EZRX-OOMMMBO) with MBR and tried to use the Extended Capacity Manager to get the extended capacity over 2 TB. It worked as described, but the tools to create a volume on the disk all see only 2 TB (Acronis help says that Windows sees the drive including the extending capacity which is not true in my case). The native Windows tool displays 2 disks for this harddisk (2 TB + 760 GB). Also Acronis Disk Director 11 Home sees only 2 TB and displays TWO disks (see attached screenshot). So what now???

My system: Windows 7 x64 SP1

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If the disk is new, I wouldn't use the extended capacity manager. I would format the disk as GPT. For a data disk, there is no problem for Windows 7 to deal with GPT disks. Since you have 2013, GPT is supported in ATI as well.

NB> another poster just reminded me that you need to have the latest Intel Rapid Technology drivers installed as well.

Pat L wrote:

If the disk is new, I wouldn't use the extended capacity manager. I would format the disk as GPT. For a data disk, there is no problem for Windows 7 to deal with GPT disks. Since you have 2013, GPT is supported in ATI as well.

NB> another poster just reminded me that you need to have the latest Intel Rapid Technology drivers installed as well.

Pat L wrote:

NB> another poster just reminded me that you need to have the latest Intel Rapid Technology drivers installed as well.

For what exactly do I need "Intel Rapid Technology drivers" and where can I get them?

In ATI2012 I had problems with the 3TB disk when surpassing the 2 TB boundary (using the 3 TB disk with GPT). Are these problems now solved in ATI2013?

Peter,

You can get the Intel drivers on the intel.com web site. They might not apply to your chipset.
2012 didn't support natively GPT disks.

2013 supports natively GPT disks.