Technique Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 So i just put in a new 6TB HDD to my machine, replacing the old 1TB drive that was in there. No doubt of no surprise to you guys but it didn't show in My Computer. I wondered if i needed to assign it a letter via disk management and was faced with this when i opened it up... So the default is "MBR" but reading below it seems to suggest (to me at least) i should select GPT? Windows is Windows 7 64 bit Pro. Just wondering what i should select so a) i don't mess things up and b) i can then use the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoochieMamma Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 GPT is what you want to use. Once it's initialised then you can format it and give it a drive letter and then you're good to go! Xenon and Technique 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circaflex Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Yes, select GPT so you can have the 6TB show up as a single volume. Technique and Xenon 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technique Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share Posted January 29, 2019 Superb. Worked a treat. Thanks guys. 5.45GB. Kinda annoying you never get the full whack but hey ho. Seems the gap is more the higher you go. What's a 12TB drive then? 10.5TB? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted January 29, 2019 Moderator Share Posted January 29, 2019 3 minutes ago, Technique said: Superb. Worked a treat. Thanks guys. 5.45GB. Kinda annoying you never get the full whack but hey ho. Seems the gap is more the higher you go. What's a 12TB drive then? 10.5TB? lol You do mean TB, right? MB and Mb are two different things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technique Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share Posted January 29, 2019 1 minute ago, Mindovermaster said: You do mean TB, right? I said TB. Shows TB on my screen. Xenon 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted January 29, 2019 Moderator Share Posted January 29, 2019 6 minutes ago, Technique said: 5.45GB. Kinda annoying you never get the full whack but hey ho. Seems the gap is more the higher you go. What's a 12TB drive then? 10.5TB? lol That... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Technique said: Superb. Worked a treat. Thanks guys. 5.45GB. Kinda annoying you never get the full whack but hey ho. Seems the gap is more the higher you go. What's a 12TB drive then? 10.5TB? lol Manufacturers measure space in GB. Windows measures in GiB and calls it GB. That accounts for most of the discrepancy. GB = 1000MB. GiB = 1024MB. Mindovermaster 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel F. Administrators Posted January 30, 2019 Administrators Share Posted January 30, 2019 Windows support for hard disks that are larger than 2 TB Summary In order for an operating system to fully support storage devices that have capacities that exceed 2 terabytes (2 TB, or 2 trillion bytes), the device must be initialized by using the GUID partition table (GPT) partitioning scheme. This scheme supports addressing of the full range of storage capacity. If the user intends to start the computer from one of these large disks, the system’s base firmware interface must use the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and not BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted January 30, 2019 MVC Share Posted January 30, 2019 ^ sorry but that is not really true.. You can use Basic or MBR formatting over 2TB just needs support over 512 sectors... Newer drives should be 4k, use the tool fsutil fsinfo on your disk.. See here this 3TB drive is not GPT.. example that I drive above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel F. Administrators Posted January 31, 2019 Administrators Share Posted January 31, 2019 21 hours ago, BudMan said: ^ sorry but that is not really true.. You can use Basic or MBR formatting over 2TB just needs support over 512 sectors... Newer drives should be 4k, use the tool fsutil fsinfo on your disk.. See here this 3TB drive is not GPT.. example that I drive above While that is true, it's not MS recommended way as per the help page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted January 31, 2019 MVC Share Posted January 31, 2019 Just pointing out that the info is not actually correct... Daniel F. and DevTech 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevTech Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 6 hours ago, BudMan said: Just pointing out that the info is not actually correct... Thanks for your ongoing efforts in improving technical excellence! Details matter in tech, maybe in everything else as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted January 31, 2019 Moderator Share Posted January 31, 2019 1 hour ago, DevTech said: Thanks for your ongoing efforts in improving technical excellence! Details matter in tech, maybe in everything else as well That's the shortest post you ever made.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevTech Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 1 hour ago, Mindovermaster said: That's the shortest post you ever made.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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