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Jumanji, for me you're "the" disk guru, but in this case I will disagree with you.
DNYBOY has a marvelous UEFI MB and has installed Win 7 as legacy. If he had installed as UEFI, he wouldn't be having problems with GPT disks.
With legacy bios you can only have disk access up to 2.19 T. To have access to larger disks you make other partitions and link them to show as one. That is why drive F: has two partitions.
From Seagate Support for Disk Drives Beyond 2.2 TeraBytes (TB) and 4K Advanced Format Sectors
Windows operating systems that boot from an MBR are therefore limited to 2.2TB per MBR. A 3TB disk drive in a legacy BIOS and Window system will need a DiscWizard device driver to access the full capacity of a 3TB disk drive. Two partitions will be necessary because of the MBR limitation. The device driver mounts the capacity above 2.2TB with another MBR which looks to the system as a second virtual “physical” device.
Edit: If someone don't agree, PLEASE post. I'm here at this forum more to learn, not to teach.
Last edited by Megahertz07; 31 Aug 2016 at 10:37.