Huh?
My poor old desktop is still 32 bit Vista.
I have a couple of 3TB disks, one live, one back-up. I simply formatted them,
full capacity, as NTFS, with no special
stuff/effort/fuss.
Big Disk Moose
On 12/18/2013 2:19 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> This was still bugging me since Just a Bunch of Disks shouldn't have any
> special characteristics regarding the disks. I think your problem is
> (and this was news to me but not terribly surprising) Windows XP doesn't
> support disks larger than 2TB at all, and Win Vista and later may balk
> at disks larger than 2.19TB depending on your hardware and if the
> manufacturer of your 3TB disk pre-formatted it with a 2TB NTFS
> partition. To uses disks larger than 2.19 TB they must be formatted
> differently with what's called a GPT format (GUID PT or Globally Unique
> Partition Table). Basically, the 3TB disk is up against the limits of
> 32-bit logical block addresses of the older MBR (Master Boot Record
> Format). GPT is a newer standard which uses 64-bit logical block
> addresses. In addition, if the disk was pre-formatted at the factory
> with a 2TB partition that partition will have to be deleted and the disk
> reformatted using GPT. See this item for more details of what to do.
> See answer #16 to question #12 at top of the page
> <http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/i-have-a-3-tb-drive-windows-7-ultimate-wont-format/b1cc3811-f25f-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5>
>
> If you follow the instructions there you should recover all of the
> space. But do be aware that that's only for a data drive. If you want
> to be able to boot from a 3TB drive there are hardware requirements
> going back to the motherboard and a 64-bit OS is required.
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