Hard Drive Partition Issue - Topic

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May 27 2013 11:43am

So I bought a 4 TB HDD because my 500 GB HDD finally failed.

The reason I bought a 4 TB was because it was on sale on Newegg a few days ago.

It finally got here yesterday and I got it up and running but it will only show 1.99 TB.

I looked in the disk management and it shows that 1.6 TB is Unallocated.

I looked into this and realised that the disk must be it GPT format and not MBR.

My question is, Is there a way to change the partition to GPT from MBR without having a second hardrive to boot windows from?

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May 27 2013 12:18pm

Yes

But you would need to reinstall windows and every thing else onto it.

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May 27 2013 12:22pm

Quote (King Atrhur @ May 27 2013 01:18pm)

Yes

But you would need to reinstall windows and every thing else onto it.

So I should just deal with the 2 TBs until I decide I want my Windows on a SSD?

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