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Windows 7 - Convert MBR Disk to GPT Disk
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| 09-24-2009 | #19 |
| | Convert MBR Disk to GPT Disk Last edited by Brink; 5 Days Ago at 10:38 AM.. |
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| 09-26-2011 | #20 |
| | When I right click the unallocated space, all the options are greyed out, preventing me from creating a new volume of any type... |
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| 09-26-2011 | #21 |
| | Winefly, Well it was worth a try. Looks like you will need to use step 2 in OPTION TWO of this tutorial to convert the disk to GPT in a command prompt at boot. Afterwards, do a clean install of Windows 7 on it. Be sure to backup anything that you do not want to lose first though.  |
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| 09-28-2011 | #22 |
| | All up and running, new partitions in gpt. Thanks for your help, Brink. |
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| 09-28-2011 | #23 |
| | You're most welcome Winefly.  |
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| 10-11-2011 | #24 |
| | GPT Data Disk Confusion At the start you say that you can still use a GPT disk for data even if your boot disk is a MBR. But is it still required to have an EFI BIOS in this setting? Or is the EFI BIOS only needed for booting from a GPT disk? Thanks. Last edited by XrayDoc88; 10-11-2011 at 12:37 PM.. |
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| 10-11-2011 | #25 |
| | Hello XrayDoc, and welcome to Seven Forums. A EFI BIOS would only be required if your were booting from a GPT disk. |
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| 10-11-2011 | #26 |
| | GPT and RAID This is a little off topic, but is there any advantage or reason to use GPT disks if you're building a RAID 5 array with five 2 TB hard drives? It seems like either way, you could still have a single huge partition, correct? |
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| 10-11-2011 | #27 |
| | Not unless you wanted any part of the RAID to be over 2 TB in size. |
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| 10-11-2011 | #28 |
| | Oh, so if you were to use five 3 TB MBR drives in a RAID array, the array would only see five 2 TB drives? |
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| 10-11-2011 | #29 |
| | Correct, unless you broke them down to smaller sizes in Disk Management, or used GPT to use over 2 TB. |
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