You learn new things all the time working on computers, tonight I had to convert a MBR to GPT.
What is it?
OK, I recently purchased a 3TB Seagate HDD for additional storage for my Win7 based PC. I added the drive as I would for any new HDD, however for some reason unknown to me at the time Win7 would not pick up the new 3TB HDD.
Rebooted and headed into the BIOS, the freshly installed 3TB was showing. Anyway after a little research online, I found out that Win7 doesn't work well with anything above 2TB (despite my MOBO manual saying otherwise).
I read that I needed to convert the 3TB drive from MBR to GPT for it to show and work correctly. Fair enough, I thought. Anyway to cut to the chase I found a free piece of software called: "MiniTool Partition Wizard" which found and converted the new clean drive in seconds.
Job Done, works perfectly now. Hopefully the above mentioned will help anyone that encounters the same issue and help them diagnose it fast.
MBR: Master Boot Record
GPT: GUID Partition Table
What is it?
OK, I recently purchased a 3TB Seagate HDD for additional storage for my Win7 based PC. I added the drive as I would for any new HDD, however for some reason unknown to me at the time Win7 would not pick up the new 3TB HDD.
Rebooted and headed into the BIOS, the freshly installed 3TB was showing. Anyway after a little research online, I found out that Win7 doesn't work well with anything above 2TB (despite my MOBO manual saying otherwise).
I read that I needed to convert the 3TB drive from MBR to GPT for it to show and work correctly. Fair enough, I thought. Anyway to cut to the chase I found a free piece of software called: "MiniTool Partition Wizard" which found and converted the new clean drive in seconds.
Job Done, works perfectly now. Hopefully the above mentioned will help anyone that encounters the same issue and help them diagnose it fast.
MBR: Master Boot Record
GPT: GUID Partition Table