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How to stop Windows misplacing secondary GPT during booting?
My desktop has one (and only) 3TB hard drive with 5 partitions: 1. EFI, 2. Windows 7 SP1 (64-bit), 3. HP Factory Recovery partition, 4. a NTFS for data storage, and 5. Ubuntu 18.04.2 (64-bit). GRUB (v....
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Repairing Windows Bootloader for gpt use
I bought i new hard disk with 3 tb of space where i wanted to install 3 different OS(1 Windows and 2 Linux). Since i had a 3 tb hard disk i needed to use gpt which made it not possible for me to get ...
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Convert MBR to GPT on already dual-booted system without data loss
I have dual booted system Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 8 with Grub2. I plan to convert MBR to GPT. I was looking at AOMEI Partition Assistant
and just need to know whether it will preserve my dual boot. ...
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Found a way to convert drive from GPT to MBR and vice versa without data loss but,
I also have found a way to convert drive from GPT to MBR and vice versa without data loss using the AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition 6.0 but, I fear because actually, I have Windows 10 already ...
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Is it possible to convert a SINGLE drive partition only from GPT to MBR without affecting other drives?
I want to know how to convert a SINGLE drive partition only from GPT to MBR without making any kind of changes on other drives which are in GPT. This means that no data should be affected on other ...
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Installing Windows 7 on a 4TB Hard Disk (not detecting above 2TB)?
I have a SeaGate Hard Disk (with 4TB capacity) which has the code number ST4000VX000-1F4168 (Surveillance HDD). I am trying to install Windows 7 in it and Windows 7 only detects 2TB capacity and not ...
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Install Windows 7 on GPT partition
Today I got really frustrated when tried to upgrade a friend's Lenovo laptop from Win8 to Win10. The upgrade just fails no matter what I try... And I tried a lot of things...
Long story short, I ...
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Windows 7 in Boot Camp can't read other FAT32 partitions
On my Mid-2009 MacBook Pro, I have OSX 10.6.8 installed, Windows 7 (through Boot Camp), and 2 FAT32 partitions. The extra two partitions are not visible to Windows 7, but they are visible on the OSX ...
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partition resize breaks EFI USB installer
I have a 64GB GPT USB stick, containing EFI installer partitions for Windows 7, Windows 10, 5 linuxes, and a Clover BootLoader to launch an El Capitan installer for Hackintosh. It all works ...
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After upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10, system thinks GPT partition is MBR
I have a Windows 7 system with 3 hard drives - Disc 0 is the boot disc formatted with MBR, Disc 1 is a 4 TB disc formatted with GPT, and Disc 2 is a 2 TB disc also formatted with GPT.
Disc 1 has one ...
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4TB drive only showing as 1.6TB?
So as the title says I have a 4TB drive I want to add as a secondary drive in my PC. I will not be booting off this drive. It is new, and not formatted in any way.
I'm running Windows 7 Pro 64bit SP1 ...
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GPT disk created in Windows 7 not properly recognised by Windows 10
I have an internal 3 terabyte WD Black disk that was set up as GPT (presumably?) and formatted with one NTFS partition spanning the entire disk under Windows 7.
After upgrading to Windows 10, the ...
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4TB GPT drive is raw
Let me give some background first before I get into the issue. A few days ago my PC died and after an hour of troubleshooting I finally confirmed that it was in fact the SSD, so I ordered a new. This ...
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Windows ignores GPT disk and converts to MBR during installation
I have followed these steps to install windows 7 home premium x64 on a 3tb drive (asus z87-z motherboard):
Windows Setup: Installing using the MBR (Master boot record) or GPT (GUID Partition Table) ...
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3TB Western Digital green showing as only 746GB in disk management? [duplicate]
I've just purchased a new hard drive (3TB Western Digital Green) with the intention of transferring everything from my hard drive that has sector issues and is causing BSODs.
The problem is, the new ...
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