I recently purchased a 3TB internal hard drive to replace the 1TB HD in my HTPC. I know some version of Windows have problems recognizing the entirety of 3TB HDs, but I figured I'd be OK since I am running Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
When I tried to install Windows on the new disk, I received an error saying "Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style." I couldn't find any way around this error message, so I ended up reformatting the drive to NTFS, thinking maybe I could keep a small NTFS partition for Windows and reformat the remainder of the drive as a second GPT partition for storage. However, it appears that I cannot reformat only part of the drive as GPT, so the system is currently not recognizing 1TB of the drive.
I'm not sure why I received the GPT installation error in the first place - is this an issue with my Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H motherboard? Does anyone have any ideas that will allow me to utilize my entire 3TB drive in this system?
Thanks in advance!
When I tried to install Windows on the new disk, I received an error saying "Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style." I couldn't find any way around this error message, so I ended up reformatting the drive to NTFS, thinking maybe I could keep a small NTFS partition for Windows and reformat the remainder of the drive as a second GPT partition for storage. However, it appears that I cannot reformat only part of the drive as GPT, so the system is currently not recognizing 1TB of the drive.
I'm not sure why I received the GPT installation error in the first place - is this an issue with my Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H motherboard? Does anyone have any ideas that will allow me to utilize my entire 3TB drive in this system?
Thanks in advance!
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