Error formatting 1.5TB Seagate under Vista: ST315003-41AS / ST31500341AS
Thursday, December 11, 2008
This applies to Seagate Barracuda ST315003-41AS / ST31500341AS Hard Drives, maybe others.
If you are trying to install Windows Vista onto a 1.5TB drive and the drive will not format, check your motherboard to see if you have an Nvidia chipset. If so you will not be able to format the drive to the full 1.5TB. You will need to make a partition 72% of 1.5TB or smaller. Once Vista is installed you will need to install Nvidia Chipset Driver 15.24 (or later). The driver is available from nforcershq.com. Once the Nvidia drivers are installed you will be able to format the full drive.
posted by AbsoluteRaleigh @ 8:46 AM,
