Recent content by Cartesian214

Ouch, I was afraid you were going to say that. Looks like I have a lot of work ahead of me. Do you think it would work if I partitioned the Data drive and moved all my stuff onto that, then reformatted the SSD/reinstalled Windows, then moved stuff back and reformatted the Data drive afterward?

but the option to delete the partition is grayed out as well... how can I get it into a raw state when Windows automatically partitions it? One thing I tried was to uninstall the drive from the device manager, but when I restarted the computer it just reinstalled it before I could do anything...

ah, thanks for the explanation. But if it's already in GPT format, how come I can't create a partition larger than 2048gb?

I recently built a new Desktop using an Asus Sabertooth Z77 motherboard, and I'm trying to install a 3tb Seagate Barracuda drive using GPT format. Unfortunately the Windows Disk Management utility gives it a system reserved partition by default, which I cannot remove. The option to convert to...