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I am having a formatting issues with my new 2 Terabyte Western Digital Drive using Windows tools (computer management: storage: Disk management)I am running Vista Ultimate 32bit service pack 2 all current patchesAsus P5NSLI mb (award bios) bios is most current (1801) from ASUS siteDrive is Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EADS 2TB driveI can not get windows to format past the 1tb point if I do a full format it stops at 54% and hangs if I do a quick format I get an I/O error. I have already replaced the drive once through new egg. The replacement drive is having the exact same issues. Eitherfull format stops at 54% or quick format gives me a failure.If I partiion the drive (usually getting some i/o errors through windows drive manager) I can create a 1tb partion and sucessfully do a quick format.

Drive appears to sucessfully read and right files. I have done several multi gb file transfers to this partionsucessfully.

However the remaining 1tb is not able to be formated or partitioned through windows. I will get an i/o Error every time. I have also tried to extend the drive through windows unsucessfully it will not alow me to increase the storage to over the1tb point. (931gb).trying a diffrent aproach I have downloaded the WD diagnostic tools that are run through vista and they always give me a 'Cable Error' in vista. I have replaced the cables 2x just to dismiss this as a problem. (I have run other drives out of this sata portfine with same cables).I have also used what appears to be sucessfully using gparted (linux) to format the drive as NTFS. Gparted has reported a sucess on the format but looking at it in windows it usually only shows as a 1mb drive for some reason.

Fiddling around in windows I havemanaged to gain access to a 1tb partion. The funny part though when I extend this partition to its maximum this is where things get wierd. The drive in vista drive manager shows as a 1963.1gb drive but looking at it through 'My computer' its only showing aempty 931gb drive.I am at my wits end trying to figure this out.

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I have made many calls into western digital and Asus to see if this is a bios issue or a drive failure the conversation pretty much goes like this. Western Digital blames the bios, Asus blames vista.Can anyone help me? See this discussion at the HP PC gaming forum, the concluding posts on page 2:just solved this problem for my HP Blackbird PC, and am now able to easily partition and format a new Seagate 2TB internal hard drive from 32-bit Vista that runs on this PC.The solution was to upgrade my Nvidia 680i chipset drivers, available in an update package from Nvidia, not through Microsoft's normal driver and OS updating pages as far as I know. See the above URL for more details.I had previously tried using a standalone disk partition and formatting utility, and although I could create and do a quick format of the 2TB drive, it would still fail basic software-based hard drive diagnostics, falsely showing hard drive seek errors. Also,when I ran the Windows utility chkdsk/f/r almost half of the hard drive was marked as containing bad sectors, which later turned out to be false.

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After the driver update, no hardware errors are produced and no significant number of bad sectors were found.This was a confusing problem to solve since it appeared to be due to either hard drive problems or perhaps a Vista problem. In reality, I only needed to update my SATA controller driver, which in my case is the Nvidia nForce 680i driver. Nvidia even hasa web page with a script that will scan your PC and tell you what drivers you need to update, both for the GPU and for their nForce chipset SATA hard drive controller.Seagate also has a page discussing the need to update the nForce drivers, which may be true for other manufacturer's drivers.hope this information is helpful.