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How to convert system disk Win7-64 into GPT?
Hi all and thank you for support!
I'm maintenaincing a videosurveillance server, where Win7-64 is installed. Previously it hosted a system disk 2TB and a storage disk 4TB. The system disk 2TB begun losing sectors so I needed to replace it, and since the client would add some cameras in future, I bought a 3TB drive.
After cloning disk I can't use all its capacity (I can't have the exeded partition bigger then 2TB) and I can't convert it into GPT (I suppose because it is in use). There are the first partition of 100MB (boot), the Windows partition (around 70GB) then the rest was used as an extended partition to store camera's records.. I need to expand it at maximum disk capacity.
Does Win7 boot on a GPT disk? (I suppose natively it didn't, but maybe now they introduced the support after updates):
With which utility can I convert the disk?
When I convert, will I lose all the partitions? Should I backup (Ghost) the partitions and restore them later? Thank you a lot!