Hello everyone,
So, last summer I built myself a nice new machine, including a Western Digital 2TB hard drive (I'll list the rest of my specs later). Recently, I wanted to upgrade to a 3TB drive, so I sold my 2TB to a friend, and went out and bought a 3TB drive. The cheapest one I was able to find was actually the Seagate GoFlex 3TB external drive, so I bought that, opened up the case, and put it in my desktop. I then encountered a bunch of unexpected problems with using a drive greater than 2.2TB. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that my motherboard has UEFI BIOS, so larger drives are supported, but I'm still having problems. Originally, I was having problems installing Windows on it, but eventually I learned that I needed to use GPT rather than MBR, so I did. I was finally able to get Windows on the drive, but when I boot up and go to either my computer or disk manager, the primary partition only shows up as 2.00TB, and the remaining 700 or so TB show up as unallocated space that I can't do anything with. It almost seems as if, even though I cleared the drive and created a new GPT partition table on it immediately before installing Windows on it, Windows changed it from GPT to MBR during the installation process. Please let me know if anyone know how to use a 3TB hard drive as a boot drive, and use all 3TB of it.
My specs are as follows:
Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 Pro (Rev 3.0) LGA 1155
Processor: Intel Sandy Bridge Core i7-2600K
GPU: 2x EVGA 01G-P3-1560-KR GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) in SLI
RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB)
HDD: Seagate STAC3000102 3TB
ODD: LG N82E16827136181 Blu-Ray Burner
So, last summer I built myself a nice new machine, including a Western Digital 2TB hard drive (I'll list the rest of my specs later). Recently, I wanted to upgrade to a 3TB drive, so I sold my 2TB to a friend, and went out and bought a 3TB drive. The cheapest one I was able to find was actually the Seagate GoFlex 3TB external drive, so I bought that, opened up the case, and put it in my desktop. I then encountered a bunch of unexpected problems with using a drive greater than 2.2TB. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that my motherboard has UEFI BIOS, so larger drives are supported, but I'm still having problems. Originally, I was having problems installing Windows on it, but eventually I learned that I needed to use GPT rather than MBR, so I did. I was finally able to get Windows on the drive, but when I boot up and go to either my computer or disk manager, the primary partition only shows up as 2.00TB, and the remaining 700 or so TB show up as unallocated space that I can't do anything with. It almost seems as if, even though I cleared the drive and created a new GPT partition table on it immediately before installing Windows on it, Windows changed it from GPT to MBR during the installation process. Please let me know if anyone know how to use a 3TB hard drive as a boot drive, and use all 3TB of it.
My specs are as follows:
Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 Pro (Rev 3.0) LGA 1155
Processor: Intel Sandy Bridge Core i7-2600K
GPU: 2x EVGA 01G-P3-1560-KR GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) in SLI
RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB)
HDD: Seagate STAC3000102 3TB
ODD: LG N82E16827136181 Blu-Ray Burner