MBR 2gb limit

[desura]

I have a 3gb drive. Win8 installed. 2gb limit only.

I have 750gb unallocated. I cannot create another drive out of it. It is just there, unusable.

Advice?

 

[boochi]

Is this a very old IDE hard drive? If so, check the jumpers.

 

[rsutoratosu]

you mean 3tb drive and 2tb limit ? delete or convert the partition to GPT, if its your boot, you need UEFI to boot GPT off the bat.

What system is this, diy or a store bought ?

 

[rsutoratosu]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/235088/everything_you_need_to_know_about_3TB_hard_drives.html

 

[desura]

you mean 3tb drive and 2tb limit ? delete or convert the partition to GPT, if its your boot, you need UEFI to boot GPT off the bat.

What system is this, diy or a store bought ?

DIY.

I really don't want to have to clone an image...but it probably is the best idea right now. Ugh.

 

[desura]

Ugh, this is a headache.

So like, I'm pretty sure I have a (edit: z68) motherboard, and I just checked the setting and I think UEFI is enabled, even though I don't see a toggle for switching between it.

Is there a software way of getting past this?

I don't even see a GPT option in windows disc management.

 

[rsutoratosu]

http://www.********************/resource/GPT-disk-partition-manager/convert-mbr-disk-to-gpt-disk.htm

http://www.********************/personal.htm - tool here

free, read it and see if you're willing to try it

 

[Underclocked]

http://www.partitionwizard.com/ have you tried a tool such as this to resize/create a partition?

 

[desura]

OKay, so I fucked up.

I had the idea of cloning the drive to another drive, then booting to the clone, formatting the disk to GPT, clone back.

Tried to clone to a 32gb ssd. but it's 35gb after being reduced.. No clone.

Managed to move my boot to the ssd from the drive.

SO now I can't boot up. It says missing /boot/bcd

error code 0xc0000034

I've downloaded a win8 recovery disk and I've run it. It does not see any windows installations. I ran commandline commands from here but no fix.

http://www.techspot.com/guides/630-windows-8-boot-fix/

help?

 

[nightspydk]

Usually a bios limitation. I'm not sure you have gone down that raod, but have you tried dividing the drive in partitons. I'v seen recently a 2 Tb bios limit and also a controller problem.

 

[desura]

http://www.partitionwizard.com/ have you tried a tool such as this to resize/create a partition?

I just got that to work.

Guess what happened?

My computer is on a repair loop right now.

 

[nightspydk]

Considering the infamous 750 gb limit, you might want to redo your mobo drivers.

https://www.google.dk/search?q=750+...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

I've seen it many times before mate, so I'm not trying to be a smartass. Try another port (controller) on mobo or update the drivers.

 

[desura]

I ended up wiping the system

Annoyingly, I can't seem to form a fuduntu persistent usb key.

 

[nightspydk]

Did you consider my options tho splitting the disk is one.