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The drive has to be reformatted using GPT instead of MBR.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26193-convert-mbr-disk-gpt-disk.html

 

ALL DATA WILL BE LOST IN THIS PROCESS SO MAKE A BACKUP

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Hello people,

I have recently added a 3TB HDD to my PC as I need somewhere to back up my 1TB and to record my fraps videos too. I istalled the hard drive and I am a where that you need to allocate the HDD space but it only allows me to create new simple volume on 2TB of the HDD and the other partition of 768GB (or something like that) doesn't give me an option??! I have tried many things such as changing the size of the partitions, using different software, joining the partitions but nothing seems to let me use my other TB.

Someone please help! Thanks

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I think some motherboards need to have the ability to read/write volumes that are more than 1TB or 2TB

 

I can't remember which one it is. 

 

 

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The drive has to be reformatted using GPT instead of MBR.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26193-convert-mbr-disk-gpt-disk.html

 

ALL DATA WILL BE LOST IN THIS PROCESS SO MAKE A BACKUP

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The drive has to be reformatted using GPT instead of MBR.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26193-convert-mbr-disk-gpt-disk.html

 

ALL DATA WILL BE LOST IN THIS PROCESS SO MAKE A BACKUP

thank you!

i5 3570K,Swiftech H220, Fractal Design Define R2 XL, Windforce GTX 760, 1tb Hitachi, 3tb Seagate, 120gb Samsung 840 EVO, XSTAR DP2710, Asus P8Z77 LX, 12gb Corsair Veangance, AX760

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