Windows Server 2008 R2 2TB Limit
I have 8 TB setup on Disk 0
100 MB is System Reserved, 2047.90 GB is (C:), 5636.67 GB is unallocated.
Under Disk Management I cant do anything other then view "Properties" & "Help"
How can I get Windows to utilize this space?
November 8th, 2011 4:51pm
it sounds like the disk was initialized as mbr (http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2009/02/07/can-you-convert-an-mbr-disk-to-gpt.aspx).
as this is your boot disk, it depends on your os if booting from a gpt disk is supported (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463525) as well as on your
bios (UEFI capable?)
the build in tools can only convert with data lose (deleting the partitions), not sure what other tools are out there that might convert loseless
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November 8th, 2011 7:03pm
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463524
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732165(WS.10).aspx
you can convert the disk to gpt
Darshana Jayathilake
November 8th, 2011 7:50pm
it sounds like the disk was initialized as mbr (http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2009/02/07/can-you-convert-an-mbr-disk-to-gpt.aspx).
as this is your boot disk, it depends on your os if booting from a gpt disk is supported (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463525) as well as on your
bios (UEFI capable?)
the build in tools can only convert with data lose (deleting the partitions), not sure what other tools are out there that might convert loseless
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November 9th, 2011 2:53am
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463524
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732165(WS.10).aspx
you can convert the disk to gpt
Darshana Jayathilake
November 9th, 2011 3:40am
Thank You for the replies, unfortunately my bios doesn't support UEFI.
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November 11th, 2011 9:42am
depending on the budget, one option you have is to buy a smaller disk for the os (say 250gb, using mbr) and use the 8tb drive as data volume (when not booting from it, you dont need uefi bios, the current windows versions support gpt drives as normal volumes)
November 11th, 2011 11:40am