If you want to have fun, buy 3 TB HDD (WD Red)  🙂

USB-SATA no go, 3TB -> ~800GB >:|

eSATA on notebook OK 🙂

MBR partition max 2TB, no go :/

GPT is a must

GTP = Windows no boot (BIOS system) :/

ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO:

IDE mode 3TB no go -> ~800GB >:|

switch to AHCI in BIOS

BSOD unaccessibble boot device (of course)

switch back to IDE, get AHCI driver from ASUS (chipset driver, vga driver, raid make disk…)

switch half to AHCI, leave rest IDE, swap sata cables, boot device to IDE, reorder boot in BIOS…

install AHCI drivers, regedit …

switch all to AHCI, fix boot order

it works 🙂 …

SMART, temperature monitoring broken 🙁

install other monitoring software, no joy 🙁

copy files from old HDD via eSATA

eSATA hot plug no go, BSOD (kernel stack…) 🙁

reboot, raid rebuild…….

copy, compare files from old HDD via USB-SATA

google … google … sleep … google … work … google …

change AHCI driver (AMD chipset driver SB7xx 2013.01.17), reboot

Windows reactivate (hardware has changed) ?:? What? .. who cares .. ok.

Where is the 3 TB? Disk managerinitialise disk wizard ?! WTF ! >:(

testdisk 6.13, fix EFI GTP

reboot

RAW filesystem … 4 f*%k sakes…

testdisk, rebuild boot sector

chkdsk, OK, huhh 

ata command pass through also works, so smart and temperature monitoring is back 🙂

It was “fun”.

(eSATA hot plug ? Maybe later, it was enough for a while…)