Hi guys
I'm scratching my head here trying to understand something and need some help please.
I've got 2 x Seagate 4TB external USB HDD's on my system, both with a single 3.64TB partition.
Now here's the mystery, both MiniTool Partition Wizard Pro and Windows Disk Management showed the partition style as MBR and not GPT. Everything I've read tells me that a partition size above 2.2TB is not possible with MBR so what's going on? They came out of the box as MBR 4TB I believe, so how is that even possible?
Please see the screen print at https://goo.gl/pmVbAu - (disks T and U and U has since been changed as per below...)
Furthermore, I've used MiniTool Partition Wizard Pro to convert one of the disks to GPT, but now I observe that using MiniTool Partition Wizard Pro to convert to GPT means that the disks are missing the usual 128MB MSR hidden partition that usually comes with GPT. What will be the consequences of having no 128MB MSR?
Thanks
I'm scratching my head here trying to understand something and need some help please.
I've got 2 x Seagate 4TB external USB HDD's on my system, both with a single 3.64TB partition.
Now here's the mystery, both MiniTool Partition Wizard Pro and Windows Disk Management showed the partition style as MBR and not GPT. Everything I've read tells me that a partition size above 2.2TB is not possible with MBR so what's going on? They came out of the box as MBR 4TB I believe, so how is that even possible?
Please see the screen print at https://goo.gl/pmVbAu - (disks T and U and U has since been changed as per below...)
Furthermore, I've used MiniTool Partition Wizard Pro to convert one of the disks to GPT, but now I observe that using MiniTool Partition Wizard Pro to convert to GPT means that the disks are missing the usual 128MB MSR hidden partition that usually comes with GPT. What will be the consequences of having no 128MB MSR?
Thanks