Yeah sounds quite strange, I would put my money on it being a platter that isn't working in your hard drive, because 2.72GB is what you would get for a 3TB hard drive, so as I understand it a 4TB hard drive has a extra platter? So I would think that it either isn't working or they put the wrong sticker on your drive.
So I returned the hard drive and got a replacement, same issue.
When I went back the second time, one of the pbtechs asked if I had a gigabyte motherboard. Turned out that it is a motherboard bug that can't handle 4tb harddrives and I need to update my bios. To restore the harddrive you need seatools for dos
The two that had worked, I must have initialized on one of the other machines I have floating around, rather than my main pc
blackjack17: So I returned the hard drive and got a replacement, same issue.
When I went back the second time, one of the pbtechs asked if I had a gigabyte motherboard. Turned out that it is a motherboard bug that can't handle 4tb harddrives and I need to update my bios. To restore the harddrive you need seatools for dos
The two that had worked, I must have initialized on one of the other machines I have floating around, rather than my main pc
Wow that's crazy, had a issue with my Gigabyte board also that wouldn't work with a specific sound card and I had to update my BIOS just for it to work....still didn't work correctly after the update.
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