Samsung F1 1TB drive problem with Gigabyte 965-DS3

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edit: fixed

I've noticed a couple of older threads with people having mostly the same issue. I just put the hard drive in, went into the BIOS and it says it's only ~31MB or so instead of the 1TB it should be. I switched cables round, checked the jumper (think it's ok) and booted up again only to have the BIOS say the same thing. I decide to go into Windows because some people say just formatting it sorts the problem out, but looking in Disk Management, it's still only ~31MB and initialising and formatting it doesn't solve the problem.

I've noticed a couple of "hard drive capacity restore" programs. One can be run in Windows (the HDD Capacity Restore) and the other, MHDD, has to be run in DOS. I tried the first one and it can't find the Samsung drive at all... Infact, the only drive it can find is the IDE drive in my computer. I've tried to use the second one but for some reason I can't get my PC to boot from the USB flash drive I have. There's a number of options for USB booting in the BIOS, including USB-ZIP, USB-HDD etcetc. I've tried them all, none work, the computer just boots from secondary boot (my Windows XP HDD) instead.

So... Any thoughts please? :)
 
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BIOS update..?
One of the updates for my board was to resolve that very problem of 1TB drives incorrectly reporting their free space. I have just fitted a Samsung 1TB in my system and all was well. I didn't even see a jumper on the drive, then again it couldn't have been important enough for me to need it.
 
Update: I've managed to boot from my USB stick and I've run MHDD in DOS, but I can't get it to work properly. I hit F2 and it says "device not ready", and I hit Shift+F3 and that just shows me a load of nonsense I don't understand...
 
I managed to fix it with the first program by taking out my IDE drive and switching cables around a few times.
 
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