Want to Discontinue SSD as boot drive and install 3TB instead in Windows 10
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Welcome to the TH Community, @mccombe_8! 
Can you please provide more details about your system specs (PC configuration)? You should be able to install Windows onto the 3 TB HDD, but your motherboard needs to support UEFI for boot. Non-UEFI motherboards can only use larger than 2 TB HDDs as secondary/data drives. This is due to the fact that legacy BIOS uses MBR (Master Boot Record) which can only support drives up to 2 TB in size. Whereas UEFI BIOS allows you to install the OS onto a larger GPT (GUID Partition Table)- formatted HDDs. Another requirement for installing Windows OS onto a larger HDD is for the OS version to be 64-bit. You can check this Tom's Hardware tutorial on How to Install Windows on...
Can you please provide more details about your system specs (PC configuration)? You should be able to install Windows onto the 3 TB HDD, but your motherboard needs to support UEFI for boot. Non-UEFI motherboards can only use larger than 2 TB HDDs as secondary/data drives. This is due to the fact that legacy BIOS uses MBR (Master Boot Record) which can only support drives up to 2 TB in size. Whereas UEFI BIOS allows you to install the OS onto a larger GPT (GUID Partition Table)- formatted HDDs. Another requirement for installing Windows OS onto a larger HDD is for the OS version to be 64-bit. You can check this Tom's Hardware tutorial on How to Install Windows on...
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Welcome to the TH Community, @mccombe_8!
Can you please provide more details about your system specs (PC configuration)? You should be able to install Windows onto the 3 TB HDD, but your motherboard needs to support UEFI for boot. Non-UEFI motherboards can only use larger than 2 TB HDDs as secondary/data drives. This is due to the fact that legacy BIOS uses MBR (Master Boot Record) which can only support drives up to 2 TB in size. Whereas UEFI BIOS allows you to install the OS onto a larger GPT (GUID Partition Table)- formatted HDDs. Another requirement for installing Windows OS onto a larger HDD is for the OS version to be 64-bit. You can check this Tom's Hardware tutorial on How to Install Windows on 3TB/4TB or larger HDDs.
Let me know if you have any additional questions!
SuperSoph_WD
Can you please provide more details about your system specs (PC configuration)? You should be able to install Windows onto the 3 TB HDD, but your motherboard needs to support UEFI for boot. Non-UEFI motherboards can only use larger than 2 TB HDDs as secondary/data drives. This is due to the fact that legacy BIOS uses MBR (Master Boot Record) which can only support drives up to 2 TB in size. Whereas UEFI BIOS allows you to install the OS onto a larger GPT (GUID Partition Table)- formatted HDDs. Another requirement for installing Windows OS onto a larger HDD is for the OS version to be 64-bit. You can check this Tom's Hardware tutorial on How to Install Windows on 3TB/4TB or larger HDDs.
Let me know if you have any additional questions!
SuperSoph_WD
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