Hi there,
I'm hoping to purchase a new 4TB WD Blue internal HDD into my 10 year old PC and I'm not sure how I will go about formatting the 4TB drive when I connect it to one of the two remaining SATA2(3G) ports on my motherboard.
I have an ASUS P8H61-M (LGA 1155) Motherboard that has four SATA 2 (3GB) ports, two of which are occupied at the moment(one by the CD/DVD disk drive and the other by the 1TB internal boot hard drive).
I'm been told that "I will need to convert the WD Blue HDD to GPT when I format to be able to use all 4TB if I am are using Windows". Is this true? Does anybody know why must I have to convert the drive to GPT to be able to use the entirety of the 4TB's of storage?
Any helpful information would be much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Brendan
I'm hoping to purchase a new 4TB WD Blue internal HDD into my 10 year old PC and I'm not sure how I will go about formatting the 4TB drive when I connect it to one of the two remaining SATA2(3G) ports on my motherboard.
I have an ASUS P8H61-M (LGA 1155) Motherboard that has four SATA 2 (3GB) ports, two of which are occupied at the moment(one by the CD/DVD disk drive and the other by the 1TB internal boot hard drive).
I'm been told that "I will need to convert the WD Blue HDD to GPT when I format to be able to use all 4TB if I am are using Windows". Is this true? Does anybody know why must I have to convert the drive to GPT to be able to use the entirety of the 4TB's of storage?
Any helpful information would be much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Brendan