Hi, Diskpart on Win7 SP1 will deal with alignment issue for you. Run the following commands: Diskpart List disk Get the ID of the disk you want to work with Select disk id Convert gpt Create part pri Format fs=NTFS quick Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of David Mehler Sent: 27 December 2013 01:26 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Preparing a 3TB drive Hello, Thanks. Diskpart can see the drive. How do I deal with creating a gpt partition as opposed to an mbr partition? I'd also like to deal with the alignment issue if possible now since one of these drives might at some future time be a boot drive. Thanks. Dave. On 12/26/13, Ben Mustill-Rose <ben@benmr.com> wrote:
Hi,
Andrew hit the nail on the head; just stick it in & set it up like you would do any other disk - Windows 7 will take care of everything when you create a partition.
If you can't see it, perhaps see if something like GRML can? Can you hear / feel the drive powering on?
Cheers, Ben.
On 12/26/13, Andrew Hodgson <andrew@hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
David,
Is the drive showing up at all in Windows 7? As it is a data drive only, you need only initialise the disk as GPT, then create your 3TB partition. You don't need to worry about the alignment. If you are using it as a boot drive, then you need to use an UEFI BIOS.
If you can't see the disk using Disk Manager or Diskpart, then something else is wrong. Can the BIOS see the disk?
Andrew.
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of David Mehler Sent: 26 December 2013 16:23 To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Preparing a 3TB drive
Hello,
To anyone with a 3TB internal or external drive, though internal is what I'm dealing with.
This is going to be in a system running windows7sp1, which is not detecting the drive. I've read that the drive needs to be prepared outside of windows, partitioned gpt and formatted ntfs then windows will see it.
I have also read about drive alignment and that this is crucial on larger drives and also the 4k boundaries on these larger drives instead of 512 byte boundaries.
The end result is I'm a little confused. The primary goal of these drives are going to be Windows data storage drives, with probably some Linux systems talking to them as well again for data storage.
I want to ensure that all operating systems can see them, that they are properly aligned, and have the correct 4k boundaries set.
What all do you use for this?
Thanks. Dave.
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