Recent content by HyperionN

I actually never said it was usb, that was the assumption of others. I tried to make it clear from the start that it is just a normal internal 5tb sata hdd. I don't have uefi bios (to my knowledge), but my understanding was that uefi is only necessary if you want to BOOT from a gpt drive. And...

ok, so i tried making the disk mbr and it was still hanging on the windows load. Then I tried a different sata port and it worked. Then I put a different hd on the sata port I had been using and it worked too. So I guess windows, for some reason, didn't like having a 5tb drive on that sata...

to clarify again, I'm, not using usb, its sata. And yes I checked the boot order. And how could it load a windows startup screen if it wasnt booting from the correct drive? I only have windows installed on one drive, so where would the logo screen come from if not from there? The windows logo...

I don' think there is any way that can be the issue. It's last in my boot order and the freeze happens on the windows logo screen, which means it is booting from the correct drive (the only one with windows on it) otherwise how would it display that screen?

I don't want to use MBR because it doesn't allow partitions larger than 2tb. I want my 5tb drive to be one large partition. I'm not trying to reinstall windows, and its not a usb drive, its sata. I just added a 5tb sata drive to my pc. And I already checked the boot order. It starts to boot...

I got a 5tb drive, and since I wanted it to be one large partition I used gpt. Windows recognized the disk, formatted it, and let me copy files. But when I restarted windows it froze on the "starting windows" screen. I figured out after some messing around that unplugging the drive lets windows...