metabeta Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago i badly want to switch to a 4TB Drive, along with one more partition, for my data collection need. So i h' an old pc, that doesn't have UEFI, with dual core. Good old BIOS. So somewhere i read that that limitation is due to incompatibility of the BIOS So i want a 4TB drive to h' these kind of setup. 1TB (Primary ) and remaining 3TB(Secondary). Then install Rollback RX after setup complete. So, i could convert it into GPT and format it. But the Disk Management of Win 7 cannot do that. I think. It would convert but not partition it. So i hope u understood it. As i want simple and minimalistic approach. Can anyone suggest how do i achieve that. If i could do that , then can i partition it from the windows startup disc and then install it. I already h' a lots of partition tools like AOMEE i forget many but... Any suggestion is welcomed. metatbeta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyber Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago (edited) Quote that doesn't have UEFI, did you look into this for win 7 and partition above 2 tb the Table 3: Quote https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/backup-and-storage/support-for-hard-disks-exceeding-2-tb Edited 1 hour ago by kyber xkryptonx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrZeb Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago Hi, Avoid problems, data corruption etc. Use a smaller drive to boot (< 2tb) and install the OS then add the 4TB drive for data initialized as GPT to create a 4TB partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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