Currently, my Dimension 3100 desktop, 2.8 GHz P4 w/HT, 1.0 GB ram has a Seagate 2TB (6Gb/s) in it. This drive replaced two hdd's, sized 1.TB and 500 MB. The original 2TB drive is 85% full, so I purchased another hdd exactly the same model and size as the current drive (STBD2000101). I run Linux as my primary OS, which has a resident GParted. After I physically installed the 2nd 2TB hdd at SATA2, I tried to set it up with GParted from the first hdd at SATA0. Although GParted indicated the drive was present, when this drive was selected GParted reported "no devices detected." I temporarily removed the original drive and installed the 2nd hdd at SATA0 for the purpose of setting up partitions and formatting it ext3 from live CD. This worked mostly, except that GParted reports the drive as 29 GB used, even after formatting again. To make a long story short, I did some troubleshooting and found nothing is really wrong except that the 2.1-TB limit was exceeded when I installed the second hdd. The BIOS recognizes the new hdd at SATA2. GParted, run from the original drive with Linux OS,sees a drive but is grayed out when the drive is selected. I can see there is an issue with exceeding the 2.1 TB limit on disk capacity. Regrettably, I am using GRUB legacy bootloader, installed to MBR. Hopefully, others have worked through this kind of problem. Please advise.
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