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...
5tb drive
bios settings
boot issues
compatibility
disk access
drive format
external drive
file copying
formatting
gptdrive
large partition
loading issues
operating system
partitioning
startup problems
system freeze
troubleshooting
ultimate edition
usb drive
windows 7
Ten days ago, I upgraded Windows 7 to Windows 8 ("What are you waiting for"-email from Microsoft).
Within 6 days, I needed to refresh Windows 8 twice because of some crashes. After the second time "refresh", and reinstalling numerous updates for Win8, I turned the computer off. Next morning...
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boot issues
chkdsk
clean install
data loss
errors
gptdrive
hard drive
installation
microsoft support
ms-dos
outlook
recovery
reformat
refresh
repair
reset
update
upgrading
windows 8