[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS.  Size indeed matters not.] So when is a terabyte not a terabyte - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA
Sun, Dec 20 2009 23:46 bradley

So when is a terabyte not a terabyte

Was swapping out a new harddrive to my HyperV test server at home and I noticed when the system first installed it did not see the 1.5 terrabyte terabyte drive, it only saw it as approx 500 gigs.  It wasn't until the system was fully built that you can see that the system could see the entire drive, but obviously couldn't be built with it from the get go like that:

Now it will allow you to extend it once it's like that so that now I have the full 1.5 terrabytes terabytes out there (less the 100 MB system reserve there)

 

It obviously sees it, it just can't see it booting up raw from it.

# re: So when is a terrabyte not a terrabyte

Monday, December 21, 2009 5:17 AM by jeffl

Susan,

The 100 MB is probably for bitlocker.

# re: So when is a terrabyte not a terrabyte

Monday, December 21, 2009 10:15 PM by Alan

Umm..."terabyte"?

# re: So when is a terrabyte not a terrabyte

Monday, December 21, 2009 10:18 PM by bradley

Okay ... so I can't spell.

# re: So when is a terrabyte not a terrabyte

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 1:06 PM by Bryan Price

Interesting.  My Windows 7 install had no problems with seeing the whole 1.5 terabytes.  Up until the second 1.5 TB drive decided to crap out five minutes into the installation.  That was a nightmare, both drives didn't appear to be working, and once I figured out which drive was still good, that SATA port only worked half the time.  Go figure.

NewEgg had no problems replacing the bad drive.  I'm happy. :)