I am in the process of cleaning and neatening up my PC.
My PC has 6 drives:
(C:) - Primary - M.2 - 1TB O.S. Drive - 3 Win Install partitions
(D:) - Primary - SSD - 1TB Installation Drive - 1 Partition
(E:) - Primary - HDD - 2TB Data Drive - 1 Partition
(F:) - Primary - HDD - 2TB Data Drive - 1...
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While installing windows 8 i ran into an error. It said that this disk is mbr and is needed to be converted to gpt. So I tried formatting it and it said
We couldn't create a new partition [error:0xc983c160] <- googled it and no results at all.
I went to cmd and tried to convert mbr to gpt...
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Hi,
In Win7 and Windows Server 2008, a 100MB partition is created for backup/restore purposes and labelled 'System Reserved Volume'. This partition has been created on a 12TB MBR drive I wish to make use of, but I can only take advantage of 2TB unless I switch the drive to GPT.
In order to...