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‎01-24-2019 08:41 AM

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Product: XW6600
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit)

Hi

I am have a few problems trying to install a 3Tb Hard Drive As a secund HD, But windwos is seeing 2 Tb ?.

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‎01-24-2019 09:11 AM

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Hi:

 

See if you can format the HDD in GPT.

 

GPT is the only way Windows will be able to see an use all 3 TB of space as a secondary hard drive.

 

Your PC is too old to use a 3 TB HDD as a boot drive.   It needs a UEFI BIOS for that.

 

See this HP whitepaper for more information on GPT and why Windows only sees 2 TB currently.

 

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02826744

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‎01-24-2019 09:20 AM

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Greetings,

Welcome to the forum.

I am not a HP employee.

 

You are running W7. W7 running with a MBR partitioning scheme has a 2 TB disk limit.

 

You need a UEFI BIOS and W7 64 bit to use GPT. The OS has to be installed in UEFI mode to use GPT.

 

Please refer to this Microsoft Technet blog for more info (Link).

 

Regards

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