Can GPT and MBR disk be in One machine

[sachinnagvekar]

Hi,
I am having desktop with Win7 64 bits. I have 1 disk with 2 tb which is my C, which is formatted using MBR. I am adding one more disk which is 4 tb, which i want to format using GPT, so i get to use that whole capacity in one drive. Now these two disks on same desktop are OK? Will I face data issues/inter disk operability issue?

 

[daveybrat]

Shouldn't have any problems at all. You can have a mixture of MBR and GPT disk drives running in the same PC.

 

[sachinnagvekar]

Thanks

 

[sachinnagvekar]

I added my Seagate 4 tb. I used Seagate Disk wizard to format it using GPT, so that i can use this as a whole drive. But one day in operations, i am facing strange issue. Disk gets unmounted randomly. Reboot fixes the issue. How is this happening & how can i prevent this?

 

[mxnerd]

Loose SATA power cable?

 

[sachinnagvekar]

Loose SATA power cable?

Thanks. Will check that. But can there be any other possibility?

 

[mxnerd]

Thanks. Will check that. But can there be any other possibility?

PSU dying or not enough power to power the whole system?

 

[mikeymikec]

How long does a reboot fix the issue for?

 

[sachinnagvekar]

How long does a reboot fix the issue for?

All the time

 

[mikeymikec]

All the time

So you shut down the computer at say the end of a day, switch it back on say the next day, the drive starts powering up and down after - how long -, then you reboot and use it for hours on end without the problem occurring again?

If you shut down the computer and started it back up within a few minutes, does the problem return as quickly as if it had been off overnight?

 

[aigomorla]

Disk gets unmounted randomly. Reboot fixes the issue. How is this happening & how can i prevent this?

can be bad PSU, or a dying SATA controller.
Or you could of gotten a lemon HDD.

Is that the only drive that has issues?

Try these to debug:
1. Change the power plug to something else on the PSU.
2. Change the SATA cable and port its connected to, to something else.

IF you have problems still on that drive and only that drive, its safe to rule its most likely you have a bad HDD.
IF your having blue screens, random reboots, its possible your SATA controller / PSU is about to take a nose dive.
IF you have another machine, at this point in time i would probably move that drive onto that other machine and do some large copy and pastes and see if it is still giving you problems.

 

[sachinnagvekar]

can be bad PSU, or a dying SATA controller.
Or you could of gotten a lemon HDD.

Is that the only drive that has issues?

Try these to debug:
1. Change the power plug to something else on the PSU.
2. Change the SATA cable and port its connected to, to something else.

IF you have problems still on that drive and only that drive, its safe to rule its most likely you have a bad HDD.
IF your having blue screens, random reboots, its possible your SATA controller / PSU is about to take a nose dive.
IF you have another machine, at this point in time i would probably move that drive onto that other machine and do some large copy and pastes and see if it is still giving you problems.

Thanks. So far, after putting power plug again, issue hasn't occured

 

[sachinnagvekar]

So you shut down the computer at say the end of a day, switch it back on say the next day, the drive starts powering up and down after - how long -, then you reboot and use it for hours on end without the problem occurring again?

If you shut down the computer and started it back up within a few minutes, does the problem return as quickly as if it had been off overnight?

So far issue hasn't re occurred post plugging power cord again