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BIF wrote:Partition the 3TB into two; MBR and GPT.
Can he do that?
Forge wrote:This is why I've actually had people trade me their 3TB disks for my 2TB ones, straight up.
Gilligan wrote:That's what I feared... seems ridiculous that you have to have a UEFI mobo to install on a 2+ TB drive...
Ryu Connor wrote:Gilligan wrote:That's what I feared... seems ridiculous that you have to have a UEFI mobo to install on a 2+ TB drive...
You can install it with a BIOS system, you just can't boot from it in a BIOS system.
It's one of those unfortunate situations where some hot new hardware won't work with some old software that's not longer supported.
- MBR is only able to address 32bits worth of sectors. (4,294,967,296(32bit) x 512(bytes per sector) = 2,199,023,255,552 (2.2TB))
- BIOS lacks the logic to understand GPT.
keltor wrote:Umm - yes you can install windows with GPT and no UEFI - run a NORMAL 64bit windows install and choose format the drive and all that after the install starts, hit Shift-F10 and then convert the drive to GPT. -MBR to jump to the WINLOAD address on the drive. I've installed this was a number of system this way.
Edit: here's a link about this - http://windowsforum.com/threads/if-wind ... -gpt.5552/
just brew it! wrote:@keltor - Since you've done it before, can't you just tell us what you did?
Gilligan wrote:I have a gigabyte motherboard, I cant remember the model (Ds3 or something?)
I decided to GPT the 3TB drive and install windows on a 500gig hard drive I have.
It's not worth the trouble for me to install onto a 3TB by some trickery using MBR. I'm planning on grabbing a SSD on black friday anyways
Forge wrote:With ImageX I don't think that's necessary, as long as you won't put too much stuff onto the system partition that will be moved to the SSD (assuming your system partition is going to be larger than the SSD that you are getting).Gilligan wrote:I have a gigabyte motherboard, I cant remember the model (Ds3 or something?)
I decided to GPT the 3TB drive and install windows on a 500gig hard drive I have.
It's not worth the trouble for me to install onto a 3TB by some trickery using MBR. I'm planning on grabbing a SSD on black friday anyways
If you're not too far in, it might be worthwhile to sort of short stroke that hard drive to whatever size SSR you think you'll be buying. Just make your partition smaller during setup. It'll make the 500 faster, and it'll make it simpler to copy the 500s contents to the ssd later.