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‎04-11-2019 09:30 PM

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Product: BK237AA-ABLHPE-141f
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit)

I installed a new internal HDD 4TB as a secondary drive to Disc 0 (1TB, MBR partitioning). I use Windows 7. The Disk Management sees Disk 1 as 1.6TB (GPT partitioning), and there is no any other partition or unallocated space on this new 4TB disk. Nothing works so far to make Windows see my new drive as 4TB. BIOS also detects it as 1.6TB but I am not sure how to update/modify BIOS. Please help. Thanks.

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‎04-12-2019 12:17 AM

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Disk needs to be initialised and formatted as GPT to see larger than 2TB...with MBR it wont work.

Read here 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/windows-setup-installing-using...

 

 

Mike
HP Pavilion 590-p0026nq, Core i7-8700, 8GB, 1TB, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060+Samsung 970 Evo Plus 256 GB NVMe
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‎04-12-2019 05:06 AM

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Another thing about the >2Tb drives and a system that old - that drive cannot be used as the boot drive.  Keep the existing 1TB drive as the boot drive, and add the 4Tb as a data drive.  It might need to be partitioned into two 2Tb drives in order to accommodate it into a system that old.


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