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SpykeZ




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PostPosted: Wed, 24th Aug 2016 23:46    Post subject: Hard drive partitioning
My system isn't in UEFI. Never had a large enough HDD to need it. Now I do. I can see my 4TB is split into 2 volumes but I can only format 1 of them in windows. The other has all the options greyed out (using admin tools). What do I do to get that other volume to work as well.

[edit] NVM, I thought GPT only worked under windows with the OS partition being in GPT which needed UEFI boot. Just redid the 4TB in GPT and it worked lol. Durp.
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Janz




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PostPosted: Thu, 25th Aug 2016 00:22    Post subject:
Razz

larger drives have to be gpt yes.glad you figured it out by yourself Wink
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SpykeZ




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PostPosted: Thu, 25th Aug 2016 00:59    Post subject:
ya but I thought I read somewhere that in order to use GPT, you had to boot from UEFI. Or is that only relevant when you want to use that large of a HDD as a boot drive?
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Janz




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PostPosted: Thu, 25th Aug 2016 01:02    Post subject:
yep the other way around. in order to use uefi boot the drive has to be gpt.
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Guy_Incognito




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PostPosted: Thu, 25th Aug 2016 09:33    Post subject:
See here for full info:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/302873

TL;DR Since XP, 64-bit Windowses can use GPT drives as non-boot storage regardless of BIOS or UEFI motherboard
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