A75 Extreme6 w/4tb HDD for OS, Windows 10 and UEFI
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Topic: A75 Extreme6 w/4tb HDD for OS, Windows 10 and UEFI
Posted By: Zaphod
Subject: A75 Extreme6 w/4tb HDD for OS, Windows 10 and UEFI
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2016 at 8:02am
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Hi. I want to upgrade from a 2tb HDD to 4tb. I've been having an enormously difficult time with this board on Windows 7 64-bit: freezing, crashing, failure to wake, and so on. I'm hoping that switching out the hard drive and moving to Windows 10 might help with some of this. However, when I try to install Windows 10 on my new 4tb drive, I am told that Windows won't install on my GPT-formatted drive. A little research suggests that motherboards have to have UEFI enabled in order to circumvent this. I am looking at the UEFI Setup Utility right now and am unclear on what to do to enable UEFI. It looks as though there is an option under the boot tab and then under "Boot Option Priorities" to put something called "UEFI: Built-I EFI Shell" as the first rather than the third boot option. I don't want to simply mess with this without some sense that this is the right move. Or is there some other setting I don't see that will allow me to run Windows on a 4tb hard drive on this motherboard? Thanks in advance. |
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Posted By: Zaphod
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2016 at 9:30am
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Well, I went ahead and set "UEFI: Built-I EFI Shell" as the first boot option, and all it did was stall my computer at the boot-up screen. So I'm back to the question: How can I set this motherboard so that I can install Windows 10 on a 4tb hard drive? Thank you. |
Posted By: parsec
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2016 at 1:51pm
First, I can tell you that the "Built-In EFI Shell" or "Launch EFI Shell from filesystem device" (another name for the same thing), will not enable UEFI mode, or help you install Windows 7 on your 4TB HDD. Your board has a utility provided by ASRock called ASRock 3TB+ Unlocker Utility ver:1.1.1, on the Windows 7 download page. As you know, your 4TB drive must be GPT formatted in order to be able to address all of its space. The MBR formatting limit is normally 2.2TB. I've never used this ASRock utility, but it may format the HDD as GPT, and possibly also enable what I will describe next. The "UEFI enabled" thing you mentioned is true to the extent that large drives need to use the EFI Option ROM that is part of the UEFI/BIOS file. There are a few ways to enable that manually, some simpler than others. The easiest way is with a sub-option of the CSM option. This option appears when CSM is set to Disabled (default value), and is called "Launch Storage OpROM Policy", set to Legacy Only by Default. Setting this option to UEFI Only will cause the EFI OpROM to be used. Where is CSM in your board's UEFI/BIOS? I don't know, the manual is not up to date IF the CSM option is available. You would need to have a later or latest UEFI/BIOS version installed on your board. My ASRock Z77 board, similar in age and generation to yours, has the CSM option in the ACPI Configuration screen, found in the Advanced section of the UEFI/BIOS. Newer boards have CSM in the Boot screen. Regardless, try downloading and running the ASRock 3TB+ Unlocker Utility ver:1.1.1 from your board's Windows 7 download page (32 or 64 bit). That version of this program, 1.1.1, is still used currently with the latest Z170 boards, so you don't need a new or different version: http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/A75%20Extreme6/?cat=Download&os=Win764" rel="nofollow - http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/A75%20Extreme6/?cat=Download&os=Win764 Install and run this program, which may be all you need to do. If you are still having problems, let us know. I've never used it since I install Windows in full UEFI mode, by setting CSM to Disabled. That requires your video source to be GOP compatible, which takes us in another direction. I don't know if your board (A75 chipset) ever had a CSM option available, the ASRock Z77 boards were some of the first ones to let us configure this option manually. Your board may have been excluded from this. NOTE: Yes, an AMD board of this vintage (A75 chipset) will most likely NOT have the CSM option available for manual configuration (I doubt it will.) The 3TB+ Unlocker program should be all you need. Using drives of this size is an advertised feature of your board. Questions: Where, and when exactly do you see or get a message that Windows 10 cannot be installed on your 4TB drive? What is the SATA mode set to in the UEFI/BIOS? NOTE: IMPORTANT!! I just noticed your board has an ASMedia SATA chipset and two ASMedia SATA ports. Do NOT use one of those ports for an OS drive, or with your 4TB HDD. If you have the 4TB drive connected to an ASMedia SATA port, that might be part or all of the problem! Move it to an AMD SATA port. ------------- http://valid.x86.fr/48rujh" rel="nofollow"> 
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Zaphod wrote:Posted By: Zaphod
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2016 at 11:24pm
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I found instructions in the manual on p. 70: "Installing OS on a HDD Larger Than 2TB." They have not worked for me. They are essentially two steps: set SATA Mode to AHCI Mode, and set Boot option #1 to UEFI:xxx. I did both, but no luck. In fact, my DVD drive now does not show up in Explorer. Please Help! Thank you. |
Posted By: Zaphod
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 12:08am
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i got my DVD drive to show up again, but still unable to install Windows on a 4tb drive. |
Posted By: wardog
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2016 at 5:03am
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! http://www.asrock.com/feature/3tb/" rel="nofollow - http://www.asrock.com/feature/3tb/ Bottom of the page is a D/L link for the latest +3TB Unlocker. |
Posted By: Zaphod
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2016 at 8:23am
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Hi, All: I thought I would just check in with the solution. In the Bios, on the Exit tab, there is an option to "Save to UEFI Defaults." Always reluctant to click on something the effect of which I know nothing, but at wit's end, I clicked and then saved and exited. Lo and behold, Windows 10 finally installed on my GPT drive. The only downside is that Windows would only allow me to create a new partition out of only about half the hard drive. (I only needed about 100gb, not 2tb, on my OS (c:) drive. I have no idea why this worked. Any way, thanks for all the input and help. |
Posted By: parsec
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2016 at 12:31pm
The option you are referring to is actually called Load UEFI Defaults. All it does is set all the UEFI/BIOS options to their default values. That's a very old and standard option found in any board's firmware, BIOS or UEFI. It could have been called Load BIOS Defaults, but since your board has UEFI firmware, UEFI is used instead of BIOS. Since clicking on Load UEFI Defaults worked for you (to a degree, you still cannot use all of the 4TB drive as the OS drive), apparently you changed an option somewhere to a non-default value, that was causing a problem for the Win 10 installation. The default SATA mode for the AMD SATA chipset is IDE, which explains why you cannot use the full 4TB of your HDD. AHCI mode should be perfectly compatible with Windows 10, frankly I'm surprised the older and slower IDE mode is even accepted by Win 10. Just checked your board's download page, no Windows 10 drivers provided by AMD. That's a shame, and explains at least some of your problems. I asked which SATA chipset you were using in my previous post, AMD or ASMedia, which went unanswered. Yet another important factor, and mystery. ------------- http://valid.x86.fr/48rujh" rel="nofollow">
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