gpt

I just received a new Dell Inspiron 15R-5520 64 bit laptop. I also ordered and received from Dell the Windows 8 OS DVD along with a Drivers DVD. I also own a valid Windows 7 OS with product key. I use Acronis True Image 2013 to backup and restore images of the OS. I wish to partition my HDD...

Kind of screen glitch that appears before windows 8 lock screen appears at start /restart and a notable delay in starting/restarting time than with my 1st win8 install. I think this appeared after I installed my windows 7 back ( dont ask me why..)( a clean install) and installed my win8 back...

I have 3 hard disks of 2 TB each with plenty of space for partitions. I run a multi-boot manager with a number of Windows OSs including Windows Vista and Windows 7, along with a number of Linux distros. I would like to install Windows 8 in its own partition, not upgrade Windows 7. I am...

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...

I recently purchased an SSD to use as my boot disc, and a 1TB HDD to use for my primary storage device. I installed my SSD, and installed Windows to it, installed my HDD, and set my BIOS up to boot from the SSD, with the HDD as a secondary drive. In device management, the HDD is is Unallocated...

A new WD30EZRX that I order arrived today, so I wasted no time trying to install it. However, when I put it in my external case, Windows seven couldn't set it up, even though Disk Management did see it. I then tried using Acronis DDS11, but it hung right after it opened. I then moved the...

I have recently bought Asus G75VW and tried to install W7 DVD as i usually use to but I could not install W7 because it was a gpt partition= Disk 0 containes 4 partitions: 1=System 200MB, 2= MSR 128MB, 3= gpt 95,4 GB and 4=Data 118,4 GB. Disk 0 is a SSD. Disk 1 is 750GB so thera are two...

hi, first i'd just like to say i dont know much about this part of computers so if you can help please exaplain clearly. so, my laptop is getting fuller,slower and i would like to return it to how it was when i bought it. so i thought i'd reinstall windows. i put in the disk and boot up my...

The storage industry has recently introduced storage devices with capacities which exceed 2TB (2 trillion bytes). In order for a system to fully support capacities greater than 2TB, the device must be initialized using the GPT partitioning scheme to... More...

If Windows 7 or Vista is formatted with MRB will it be able to read a USB external drive formatted GPT? Joe

l am having a problem with installing due to a disk partition problem.. Im getting an error that says "The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems Windows can only be installed to GPT disks" I have no clue and reading other forums it sounded like specific computers were...

Hi all, I don't know too much about hardware nor software of a pc and just learning stuff as I go. Any help is appreciated thanks. Here is my issue: i just got a new hdd (because my old one stopped working, malware virus something idk) but when i try installing win7 on the new hdd, it...

i have an internal drive in one of those hard drive enclosure. its a 3 tb western digital drive. when i plug it in, its only 750 gb thats showing up. i have converted the disk to gpt but its still showing only 750 gb. i have windows 7 64 bit. how can i get this to show as 3 terabytes?

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...

Hi, I'm trying to do a clean install on Windows 7 64-bit on my laptop. I currently have 32-bit Vista running. I initially created a new partition, copies all my data there, then started to do the custom install. I got the message: Some Googling around found the following suggestion...

Hi everyone, my hard disk is GPT partitioned for the benefit of Mac OS X and Linux. I recently created a new partition at the end of my hard disk but I can't seem to access it in Windows. Is there a way to get Windows to see the partition? My hard disk currently looks like this: Mac partition...

Greetings, Yesterday a sudden disk crash got me new 512GB drive and I decided to use the mishap to play with GPT partition tables. In addition to the different Windows versions, I use different flavors of BSD a lot and on my systems I often feel a little bit limited by the number of bootable...

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Hi all, new to this forum; First of all i am using a brand new hard drive with no data or partitions on it prior. im using the GParted program found on the ubuntu live cd to partition my harddrive so i can dual boot between ubuntu and windows 7. However, after i have partitioned my hard...

I believe this asks the question. Both Vista SVCPK 1 and OS7 claim to support GPT partitioned hard disks, but neither Beta or RC will allow you to install on or create a GPT partition, so does that really mean GPT cannot be used to install the OS?