Convert MBR Disk to GPT Disk

Thanks Jumanji the driver fix worked out just right and I am now cloning the drive for the boss:)

Such a simple thing but to be honest as I said the stuff involving drives is overly convoluted for silly old fellows like me.

beardrinksbeer said:

I was going to answer this but he seems to like u Jumnaji & not a fellow Aussie (even thou he can't write the native language), u can explain the 1024 & 1000 thingy

cheers

Actually a naturalised Pom mate and yep I do understand the basic alignment and formatting stuff it is the other run arounds that that throws me
by the by what is the native language as I don't use the new stuff young fellas like "u" use

ICit2lol said:

Ok Jumnaji mate I did the first option and updated the driver but it said that the best driver was already installed so it must have happened real quick. But in any case the partition if that what it is in now healthy and the Not initialised has gone.
What is still bothering me is that it was bought and it states on it 750GB and the admin window shows it is 698.83GB?? that is at least 50GB short of what the device says it is.

So anyway does this mean I have to format the drive again? Sorry mate but drive stuff like this is very convoluted for me.

Glad you got it sorted John. :)

Just out of curiosity, did you try right clicking on the smaller Disk 2 box you have circled in red in your Disk Management screenshot, and click on Initialize?

Here's more information on why your HDD is not be the size as advertised:

HDD's - the Advertized size vs the Actual size.

Hello Shawn well I could do that mate because that option was greyed out or I would have done just that why it was so is a mystery. Anyway jumanji was right on the money with the answer with that uninstall driver option.

I am as I said to him and the others not good at understanding how to get hard drives ready for use and all that partitioning stuff as you can se my pic of the C: drive - I have no idea of how to put that right even though it makes no difference to how the SSD performs.

Thanks for the link mate I know that most drive sizes are not really what they are stated to be but I did think 50GB out was a little bit rude. Mind you I really am not a fan of WD preferring Seagate myself.
Having said that the clone is definitely quicker between programs on the taskbar and booting up.

Personally I like to start an installation with an unallocated drive to help avoid funky partitioning like that, then partition afterwards how I like.

Shawn I shall have to do some researching on the matter as I thought being unallocated was or meant the drive was unusable as is

ICit2lol said:

Shawn I shall have to do some researching on the matter as I thought being unallocated was or meant the drive was unusable as is

Unallocated is unusable, but you could select an unallocated drive say during Windows installation to have it automatically formatted and then used to install Windows on like in step 7 or 8 below.

Clean Install Windows 7

Got that Shawn but just out of curiosity is that 100MB space the same sort of aligning method as in Wolfgang's tutorial on SSD's? so to just make it neat and "tidy" so to speak?

I don't remember which tutorial is the one for Wolfgang that you mentioned.

The 100 MB partition is the System Reserved partition created during installation to be able to use WinRE without the need of a system repair disc or installation media.