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3TB's Partitioned As NTFS With MBR Out There?
Guys,
Windows 7 Pro SP1 64-Bit with an ASRock P67 PRO3 (B3) MoBo
that has a UEFI BIOS, i5-2500K and Corsair Vengeance 16 Gigs.
My C, D and E partitions are on a 120 GB NTFS SSD with a MBR.
My present STORAGE HDD is a 2TB Toshiba with a MBR.
I recently purchased a Toshiba PH3300U-1I72 3TB to replace the 2TB.
I always Ghost with DOS Bootable CDs I make with custom
Autoexec.bat files I write, never Windows.
I found out from Symantec that Ghost has issues with GPT.
I found a way to make my 3TB FULLY accessible and set as MBR.
It's Acronis True Image, aka Seagates DiskWizard aka WD's version
of DiskWizard. It puts an "Extended Capacity Manager" in the boot
sector so you get one 2.1TB and one 700+GB partition, BOTH MBR.
See: Seagate DiscWizard CloneDisc for drives larger than 3TB_Part-2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCLGfj1LSmI
I just found this and would like some input before opening the
Toshiba 3TB's box:
Make SURE the 3TB is EMPTY as this will wipe ALL data on the drive
To make a fully accessible 3TB with 4k sector:
1. Boot to desktop.
2. Open "My Computer" in Windows Explorer.
3. Click on the EMPTY 3TB HDD.
4. If the factory made some partitions on it, delete them all.
5. Once it is just one disk, right-click it and click "Format"
6. Select "4096", "NTFS" and "Format".
7. Click OK. Since the 3TB is EMPTY, it should be real quick.
8. It's now ready to be partitioned to your liking up to 2.7 or so
TB's total and is set as MBR.
The reason that I'm posting this is to get feedback from anyone who
has used these programs or the "4096", "NTFS" and "Format" method
to see if the 3TBers work as any other HDD would or are there any
quirks that have come up since partitioning your 3TB?
Please post to me.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Big Al
Last edited by BigAlC; 22 Dec 2013 at 21:57.