- Feb 3, 2015
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Hi!
I've had an interesting problem. I have a 3TB drive that I've been using as internal storage on my desktop PC for several years, but I always had it formatted with MBR, so windows only showed 2.1 TB or something like that. Recently I bought a new mobo w/ UEFI so I could reformat to GPT and use the full 3TB.
Well, stupidly, my laptop that I use at university doesn't recognize GPT drives, no UEFI
So when I plug my drive in, I see no volumes in explorer and disk management shows 3 empty partitions, all labelled "invalid", which makes me very sad. The help I'm looking for would be on how to possibly use this drive on this laptop without data loss. I have only 1.3TB worth of data on it, but unfortunately in my thoughless storage greed I may have made my life harder for the next 8 months.
Thanks in advance for any help I get!
Edit after getting answer: thanks for the reply! I was afraid I was just knackered, but I've had some pretty hail Mary solutions come from THF, so it was worth a shot. Unfortunately I'm at school, having discovered this upon attempting to use the drive.
Thanks anyways Colif!
I've had an interesting problem. I have a 3TB drive that I've been using as internal storage on my desktop PC for several years, but I always had it formatted with MBR, so windows only showed 2.1 TB or something like that. Recently I bought a new mobo w/ UEFI so I could reformat to GPT and use the full 3TB.
Well, stupidly, my laptop that I use at university doesn't recognize GPT drives, no UEFI
So when I plug my drive in, I see no volumes in explorer and disk management shows 3 empty partitions, all labelled "invalid", which makes me very sad. The help I'm looking for would be on how to possibly use this drive on this laptop without data loss. I have only 1.3TB worth of data on it, but unfortunately in my thoughless storage greed I may have made my life harder for the next 8 months.Thanks in advance for any help I get!
Edit after getting answer: thanks for the reply! I was afraid I was just knackered, but I've had some pretty hail Mary solutions come from THF, so it was worth a shot. Unfortunately I'm at school, having discovered this upon attempting to use the drive.
Thanks anyways Colif!
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