Hello, everyone.
I am hoping to get a 3TB external hard drive for my laptop, and I know that in order to utilize all 3 TB, I'll need to convert the drive to GPT format (if it's in MBR by default, which I've come to expect it probably will be).
But some other website cautions me that the computer's SATA controller has to be compatible with GPT in order to do this. Well, my computer says I have an Intel Mobile Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller, but Googling this doesn't answer the question as to whether or not I can format drives to GPT or not.
It's a Lenovo laptop, about 2 years old, with Win 7 64-bit. Any ideas how I'd find out if I can get 3 terabytes, short of buying the thing and then finding out that nope, I can only use 2?
Thanks!
-MXV
Edit: Lenovo support doesn't even understand what I'm asking about. They have difficulty with English, and after talking to four representatives, I got answers varying from "you can put a hard drive on it" to "It's probably SATA 0 or 1 but we don't have any information" to "Please deposit money" to a simple "I don't know."
I am hoping to get a 3TB external hard drive for my laptop, and I know that in order to utilize all 3 TB, I'll need to convert the drive to GPT format (if it's in MBR by default, which I've come to expect it probably will be).
But some other website cautions me that the computer's SATA controller has to be compatible with GPT in order to do this. Well, my computer says I have an Intel Mobile Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller, but Googling this doesn't answer the question as to whether or not I can format drives to GPT or not.
It's a Lenovo laptop, about 2 years old, with Win 7 64-bit. Any ideas how I'd find out if I can get 3 terabytes, short of buying the thing and then finding out that nope, I can only use 2?
Thanks!
-MXV
Edit: Lenovo support doesn't even understand what I'm asking about. They have difficulty with English, and after talking to four representatives, I got answers varying from "you can put a hard drive on it" to "It's probably SATA 0 or 1 but we don't have any information" to "Please deposit money" to a simple "I don't know."
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