{"id":468,"date":"2011-04-14T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/bootit-bm-sees-only-8-gb-or-less-than-the-total-size-of-a-hard-drive\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T21:59:08","slug":"bootit-bm-sees-only-8-gb-or-less-than-the-total-size-of-a-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/bootit-bm-sees-only-8-gb-or-less-than-the-total-size-of-a-hard-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"BootIt BM Sees Only 8 GB (or Less than the Total Size) of a Hard Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem is most likely that the system BIOS doesn't support hard drives larger than 8GB (or however big the drive is). To correct this issue:<\/p>\r\n  <ol>\r\n    <li>If your motherboard manufacturer has a BIOS update, install it. The update may have added support for the large hard drive.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>If there is no BIOS update available from your motherboard manufacturer then you can check with <a href=\"http:\/\/esupport.com\/products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eSupport.com<\/a> to see if an update is available that will work for you.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>Install an ATA-66\/100\/etc. or SATA controller (depending on your drives)&nbsp;and move your drives to it. The controller should have a BIOS which will support larger hard drives. If it doesn't support a very large hard drive,&nbsp;there may be firmware updates available at the manufacturer's website.&nbsp;<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>The BIOS may need to have the drive controller&nbsp;in LBA mode for the full drive size to be seen. If LBA mode doesn't work and a Normal mode is available, try that.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>If you just need to use the drive with <strong>Partition Work<\/strong>, try using the <strong>BIOS (direct)<\/strong> access method. Note that while this may allow you to work with the partitions the drive&nbsp;won't be available for booting since booting is limited to what the BIOS supports. <\/li>\r\n  <\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem is most likely that the system BIOS doesn&#8217;t support hard drives larger than 8GB (or however big the drive is). To correct this issue: If your motherboard manufacturer has a BIOS update, install it. The update may have added support for the large hard drive. If there is no BIOS update available from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1826],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2119],"class_list":["post-468","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-bootit-bare-metal-problem-solving-bootit","lsvr_kba_tag-bootit-bare-metal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6250,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/468\/revisions\/6250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}