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‎01-15-2018 10:56 PM

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Product: HP Pavilion 500 406a
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

The Recovery Media I have obtained from HP will restore the original OS for this PC which was Windows 8.1. The support page for using Recovery media for this PC mentions nothing about an option to choose MBR or GPT for the 3TB Drive HP supplied with this PC. It seems there is no option in the Recovery Process to do so? Must it be done prior to Recovery. Did HP originally supply a 3TB Hard Drive with this PC with MBR partition which can only have 4 partitions and utilise 2TB leaving a huge chunk of unallocated space? Once Windows 8.1 is restored I understand Windows 10 can be reinstalled. I understand the licence key is embedded in the recovery software on the cd media. However I don't want to go through this laborious process if I can't make the 3TB Hard Drive GPT.

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