How To Solve MBR Disk 2TB Partition Limit in Windows 8/8.1/7/Vista?
How To Solve MBR Disk 2TB Partition Limit in Windows 8/8.1/7/Vista?
MBR disk has a problem of 2TB partition limit, the only way to solve this problem is converting MBR to GPT disk. With AOMEI Partition Assistant, it is easy to do and won’t cause data loss.
When you buy a new disk, more than 2TB. But you can only see 2TB of disk space and
cannot use the rest of the drive. Why can’t you have a partition larger than 2TB? As
storage has gotten bigger and cheaper, more and more people come to this question
when they upgrade their hard disk. Now it has become a common problem. Let me take a
few minutes to talk about the mysterious 2TB limit. In fact, in a word, it is due to
the type of initialization performed on the disk. Your disk is MBR type! The MBR
supports up to 2TB per single partition. So you can only see and use 2TB in your
computer.
How To Solve The Problem?
Now that you have known 2TB is the max volume in a MBR disk. I also want to tell you
that there are two types of disk, another is called GPT(GUID Partition Table), a new
partition/disk style, which support bigger than 2TB. So the solution is converting
MBR to GPT? Yes, it is!
At first, verify that your computer equipped with UEFI if your system partition is in
the pre MBR disk. The UEFI will show up in the bios. Second, it is about operating
system requirements. You can consult the chart below.
Operating System
Data Access
System Boot
Windows XP 32-bit
Not Support GPT
Not Support GPT
Windows XP 64-bit
Support GPT
Not Support GPT
Windows Vista 32-bit
Support GPT
Not Support GPT
Windows Vista 64-bit
Support GPT
Support GPT(Need UEFI)
Windows 7 32-bit
Support GPT
Not Support GPT
Windows 7 64-bit
Support GPT
Support GPT(Need UEFI)
Windows 8 32-bit
Support GPT
Not Support GPT
Windows 8 64-bit
Support GPT
Support GPT(Need UEFI)
Everything seemed ready, now you need a tool to convert MBR to GPT. A Professional
partition manager - AOMEI Partition Assistant is
able to do this easily and safely.
AOMEI Partition Assistant has a professional feature called “Convert to GPT
disk”. Concrete steps please visit here.
After you have converted MBR to GPT, you can convert
a FAT partition to NTFS. The result of Windows with NTFS and GPT is better
overall performance.
More about AOMEI Partition Assistant
AOMEI Partition Assistant is an all-in-one partition software. Besides as a partition
converter, it has many other practical functions: migrate OS to SSD/HDD, resize
partition, merge partition, allocate free
space, rebuild MBR. More function please visithere.