Change >2TB USB attached HDD from GPT => MBR

Nice_Monkey · Mar 9, 2015

I want to use >2TB HDD drives via USB with my media player but it does not support this. I need a way/tool to split the drive in multiple logical drives or increase the reported sector size to 4K apparently. The question how to do so.

PizzaTheHutt · Mar 9, 2015

A way to get around this is to create smaller partitions on the hard drive. You can do this with disk manager (Which is built into windows) or any other partition manipulating software of your choice.

Nice_Monkey · Mar 9, 2015

That does not work. MBR does not allow the sum of all partitions to be bigger than 2.2 TB in total

PizzaTheHutt · Mar 9, 2015

Nice_Monkey :

You're using MBR? OK - I presumed your media player would support GPT. One option would be to use your main PC to stream the media from the >2tb HDD over to the media player. If you don't want to do this, how about trying to reformat the drive using a different cluster size (i.e. 4096 instead of 512)

Nice_Monkey · Mar 9, 2015

PizzaTheHutt :

Nice_Monkey :

You're using MBR? OK - I presumed your media player would support GPT. One option would be to use your main PC to stream the media from the >2tb HDD over to the media player. If you don't want to do this, how about trying to reformat the drive using a different cluster size (i.e. 4096 instead of 512)

Nice_Monkey · Mar 9, 2015

The default cluster size in fact is 4K but the sector size is 512 bytes. That is a HDD parameter though which I can't change. Some discs or USB/ATA bridges change this though to 4K.

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