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"....The October Update was a surprise in that Microsoft didn't test it with it with the Windows Insider Program's Release Preview ring..." ...it with it with?

Noting that two different pieces of software I tried saw the added harddrive's correct size but windows did not lead me to believe that the Microsoft windows SATA driver was at fault. I searched and located a replacement driver that removed the Microsoft driver and put itself in its place. I...

Kinda seems like an Windows failure.........Sisoftware Sandra sees it at the correct size and Western Digital Lifeguard sees it at the correct size....but Windows 7 does not

http://www.goharddrive.com/White-Label-3TB-64MB-Cache-SATA3-Hard-Drive-p/g01-0530.htm .....This is the drive in question I deleted all partitions and set it as GPT...Windows 7 initialized it to 764308MB....

Using "Sisoftware Sandra" it reports the manufacturer as Western Digital, so it's a "white label" drive. Using Western Digital's - Western Digital Data LifeGuard Diagnostics, it show the drive as a 3000gb drive........

It's a MediaMax WL3000GS A6472C

Also tried using EaselUS Partition Master 9.2.1 Home Edition, that shows it as a 746.39GB drive. Seems to me EaselUS is just pulling the same info that Windows is supplying.

I have an MSI motherboard, model MS-7309 running Windows 7 Ultimate SP1. Motherboard has the latest BIOS update v2.70. I added a SATA 3T harddrive (WL3000GS A6472c) to the second SATA port, the first drive is a 1T ST310005 20AS and works fine. BIOS sees the second drive as a 3T harddrive but...