8tb detected as 1.3tb ?

[libertaire]

I just bought a brand new 8tb Seagate from Newegg and when trying to initialize and format it using Windows' disk manager, it is detected as 1.3tb only

Faulty HDD ? Should i RMA it ? Anything else i can try ?

 

[rgd1101]

Which windows version?

 

[mcnumpty23]

think you have to Convert to GPT disk in disk management--never had a drive that large but sort of sure it wont show all if its mbr

 

[Sh4d0w45p]

Pretty sure it's the Motherboard and you will need to update the BIOS to the latest version...

What is your Motherboard and BIOS version?

 

[libertaire]

I tryed on 2 different computers on Windows 7, same results.

Motherboard is Z87-G45 bios V1.9

And i also tried to convert to GPT disk