[paulygavin]

Hi guys, I am having the same trouble.

My motherboard is also a Gigabyte but it is the GA-MA69G rev 1.0 with latest Bios update (BIOS F6)

It has 4 SATA ports and to them I have attached 3 WD 750GB caviar Hard Drives which all work fine.

I just purchased the Samsung 1TB Spinpoint like the OP and cannot get it to recognise the full capacity.

Just as above my Bios also recognises it as a 33MB drive, and in windows it shows as 7.87GB.

Windows will not let me quick or full format it..... and the utility mentioned above will not allow me to use it as it says there are 4 drives attached to the SATA ports and that ONLY the 1TB Samsung can be attached for the tool to work.

Only problem is.... as the drive will not allow me to format it, I cannot get windows XP onto the drive to THEN use the tool.

What can I do? I really want to get this drive working rather than send it back!!